Prospects of cargo transportation within the borders of the countries of the 1520 Railway Gauge Space

Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Transportation Economics Department, Moskovsky ave., 9, 190031 Saint Petersburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: liana1981-149@mail.ru

Abstract

Objective: to assess the importance of cargo transportation for the economy of the 1520 countries. This study confirms the need to expand the capabilities of the railway infrastructure despite the consequences of sanctions restrictions, the uncertainty of the international political situation and the imbalance of trans-Eurasian container transportation in order to achieve economic growth of the national economies of the 1520 countries. Methods: methods of data analysis and diagnostics (observation, analysis, synthesis) of regulatory legal provisions regulating relations within the framework of freight transportation on the railway network, as well as reports of leading railway companies of the 1520 countries - JSC “Russian Railways”, JSC “NC “Kazakhstan Temir Zholy”, Belarusian Railway are used etc., Russian and foreign forwarding companies, carrier operators, data from the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and foreign customs authorities, statistical and analytical information databases. Results: The characteristic of the main railway systems of the leading countries of the 1520 Space is given, specifying the number of international and domestic container and container-trailer routes. The factors influencing the development of cargo transportation on the territory of Russia along the 1520 gauge are identified, the prospects for cargo transportation are assessed taking into account the current state of the transport and logistics market in Russia. Practical significance: the results obtained are of an applied nature, since they propose and justify a number of measures to ensure the effective development of cargo transportation, taking into account existing infrastructure constraints.