Russia plans tunnel to increase container trade with Japan

[Aepsilons]

Russia plans to significantly increase the volume of its container trade with Japan by building a new rail bridge that will connect Sakhalin, Russia's largest island in the north Pacific Ocean, with Hokkaido, Japan's second largest island.

The new bridge will result in the establishment of a Japan-Russia-EU transcontinental corridor that will have a capacity of 33 million tonnes (36.3 million tons) of cargo per year, the majority of which will be containerized.

Last year containerized trade between Japan and Russia amounted to 73,800 twenty-foot-equivalent units, driven primarily by Russian imports of Japanese products, according to Gennady Bessonov, Secretary General of the Russian Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation. Bessonov said it is possible these figures will significantly increase this year because of the decline of EU imports to Russia and subsequent shift to Asian supplies as a result of Western sanctions and countersanctions imposed by Russia.

Maxim Shingarkin, member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology of the Russian State Duma and one of the initiators of the project, said the first stage’s investment is expected to be in the range of 386-387 billion rubles, ($8-9 billion) with the possibility of an increase during the next several years and Japan will also provide funding.

The new bridge is expected to be commissioned between 2025-2027, and contracts will be awarded on a concession basis.

The new bridge will allow Russia to significantly increase its share of transcontinental container trade, an official spokesman of the Sakhalin government said.

Calculations by Alexander Khoroshavin, the former governor of Sakhalin, suggest this market currently makes up about 25 percent of the export-import balance in Eurasia, a substantial part of which is transported by sea and takes 30-40 days. With the establishment of a direct rail connection, the transit time will drop to ten days and could result in the reduction of shipping costs threefold.


@vostok @senheiser @yoshi.oda

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[vostok]

Russia plans to significantly increase the volume of its container trade with Japan by building a new rail bridge that will connect Sakhalin, Russia's largest island in the north Pacific Ocean, with Hokkaido, Japan's second largest island.

The new bridge will result in the establishment of a Japan-Russia-EU transcontinental corridor that will have a capacity of 33 million tonnes (36.3 million tons) of cargo per year, the majority of which will be containerized.

Last year containerized trade between Japan and Russia amounted to 73,800 twenty-foot-equivalent units, driven primarily by Russian imports of Japanese products, according to Gennady Bessonov, Secretary General of the Russian Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation. Bessonov said it is possible these figures will significantly increase this year because of the decline of EU imports to Russia and subsequent shift to Asian supplies as a result of Western sanctions and countersanctions imposed by Russia.

Maxim Shingarkin, member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology of the Russian State Duma and one of the initiators of the project, said the first stage’s investment is expected to be in the range of 386-387 billion rubles, ($8-9 billion) with the possibility of an increase during the next several years and Japan will also provide funding.

The new bridge is expected to be commissioned between 2025-2027, and contracts will be awarded on a concession basis.

The new bridge will allow Russia to significantly increase its share of transcontinental container trade, an official spokesman of the Sakhalin government said.

Calculations by Alexander Khoroshavin, the former governor of Sakhalin, suggest this market currently makes up about 25 percent of the export-import balance in Eurasia, a substantial part of which is transported by sea and takes 30-40 days. With the establishment of a direct rail connection, the transit time will drop to ten days and could result in the reduction of shipping costs threefold.


@vostok @senheiser @yoshi.oda

Russia plans tunnel to increase container trade with Japan | JOC.com

They also plan to build a tunnel between Sakhalin and the mainland. It would be great if all these plans will come true.

 

[Aepsilons]

They also plan to build a tunnel between Sakhalin and the mainland. It would be great if all these plans will come true.

I'm sure it will manifest in time, my friend.

 

[yoshi.oda]

They also plan to build a tunnel between Sakhalin and the mainland. It would be great if all these plans will come true.

Japan should do more cooperation with Russia because Russia is not our enemy.

Japan is depend on Russian energy and security cooperation. Less dependence on Washington better for Japan.

@vostok so do Russian people have good thought on Japanese? Japan?

I'm sure it will manifest in time, my friend.

We should help develop Vladivostok and area nearby , build integration of Japan and Russia. Defense treaty with Russia to start !

 

[Aepsilons]

We should help develop Vladivostok and area nearby , build integration of Japan and Russia. Defense treaty with Russia to start !

Well, perhaps it would be better to begin this entente with a formal peace treaty between the two countries. I think that recent American interference had prevented the previous Hatoyama administration to conclude a peace treaty with Russia. A peace treaty could put to rest any question of Russo-Japanese hostility, put to rest the issue of islands north of Hokkaido, those are strategic minor points that can only serve to tense relations. With Russia, I think we have a possible security partner , trade partner, and cultural partner. Japan should definitely balance relations between Washington and Moscow, and who knows, perhaps Japan can serve as a way to calm Russo-American tensions. This was usually the case in the Cold War...like what we talked about before.

 

[opruh]

Japan should do more cooperation with Russia because Russia is not our enemy.

Japan is depend on Russian energy and security cooperation. Less dependence on Washington better for Japan.

@vostok so do Russian people have good thought on Japanese? Japan?



We should help develop Vladivostok and area nearby , build integration of Japan and Russia. Defense treaty with Russia to start !

Japan needs to give helicopter-carriers to Philippines, Japan and the Philippines are friends.

 

[hans]

The problem is whether US allows that..
In most case, US want Japan to stand on the same side against Russia, even at the cost of Japan-Russia relationship

Japan should do more cooperation with Russia because Russia is not our enemy.

Japan is depend on Russian energy and security cooperation. Less dependence on Washington better for Japan.

We should help develop Vladivostok and area nearby , build integration of Japan and Russia. Defense treaty with Russia to start !

 

[vostok]

@vostok so do Russian people have good thought on Japanese? Japan?

Pure culturally - yes. Sushi almost become a traditional Russian food, and anime has millions of fans.
However, until the American occupiers leave Japanese soil - it is difficult to talk about the real development of relations .

 

[dy1022]

 

[opruh]

Very accurate!

 

[Aepsilons]

@vostok so do Russian people have good thought on Japanese? Japan?

I'd say both of our nations see each other as a partner. The potential for Russo-Japanese cooperation is high, and largely untapped. Russia and Japan are , practically, natural partners and we cannot deny our geographic proximity with each other. So tho it may not translate to immediate geostrategic relations, we can begin with the grass-roots level in the form of Japanese businesses in Russia, Japanese investments in Russian starter companies, investment in the Russian Far East's infrastructure projects. What a better way to uplift and transform relations on the people to people level --- than on the infrastructural level , which , in my opinion, is not only practical, but realistic. At the same time, I think Japan should open the doors to Russian immmigration to Japan, increase and enable more open borders with Russia. I believe Russians are hard working people , very adaptable, and would integrate well in Japanese society. That's where I stand.

@vostok @senheiser --- dear Russian comrades, you do know that there is already a strong Russo presence in Hokkaido? Russian Orthodoxy Church is thriving, actually. Fertile ground for the faith. That's one thing I really appreciate about the Russian influence. You guys know about that?

In fact the JAPAN TIMES wrote an article on this paradigm just this past week. You guys might want to read about it:

Propagating Russian Orthodox faith in Japan | The Japan Times

"Years later, in 1880, Dostoevsky read newspaper accounts of a Russian priest who was devoting his life to propagating the Russian Orthodox faith in Japan. The priest was briefly back in Russia. Dostoevsky, deeply religious and therefore deeply interested, paid him a visit. The two men found much to talk about, mainly their shared faith in the Christian regeneration of fallen mankind under Russian leadership. Dostoevsky, a journalist as well as a novelist, planned an article — never written due to his sudden death months later — on Nikolai Yaponskii and his missionary work among the Japanese.


Born in a village near Smolensk in 1836, Ivan Kasatkin, the future St. Nikolai, dreamed as a young seminarian of spreading the Gospels in China. It was Golovnin’s “Memoirs of a Captive in Japan” that showed him his true destiny. Japan, not China, would yield him his harvest of souls."

 

[Spectre]

I'd say both of our nations see each other as a partner. The potential for Russo-Japanese cooperation is high, and largely untapped. Russia and Japan are , practically, natural partners and we cannot deny our geographic proximity with each other. So tho it may not translate to immediate geostrategic relations, we can begin with the grass-roots level in the form of Japanese businesses in Russia, Japanese investments in Russian starter companies, investment in the Russian Far East's infrastructure projects. What a better way to uplift and transform relations on the people to people level --- than on the infrastructural level , which , in my opinion, is not only practical, but realistic. At the same time, I think Japan should open the doors to Russian immmigration to Japan, increase and enable more open borders with Russia. I believe Russians are hard working people , very adaptable, and would integrate well in Japanese society. That's where I stand.

@vostok @senheiser --- dear Russian comrades, you do know that there is already a strong Russo presence in Hokkaido? Russian Orthodoxy Church is thriving, actually. Fertile ground for the faith. That's one thing I really appreciate about the Russian influence. You guys know about that?

In fact the JAPAN TIMES wrote an article on this paradigm just this past week. You guys might want to read about it:

Propagating Russian Orthodox faith in Japan | The Japan Times

"Years later, in 1880, Dostoevsky read newspaper accounts of a Russian priest who was devoting his life to propagating the Russian Orthodox faith in Japan. The priest was briefly back in Russia. Dostoevsky, deeply religious and therefore deeply interested, paid him a visit. The two men found much to talk about, mainly their shared faith in the Christian regeneration of fallen mankind under Russian leadership. Dostoevsky, a journalist as well as a novelist, planned an article — never written due to his sudden death months later — on Nikolai Yaponskii and his missionary work among the Japanese.


Born in a village near Smolensk in 1836, Ivan Kasatkin, the future St. Nikolai, dreamed as a young seminarian of spreading the Gospels in China. It was Golovnin’s “Memoirs of a Captive in Japan” that showed him his true destiny. Japan, not China, would yield him his harvest of souls."

Russia and Japan have complementary needs. I say a match made in heaven!

 

[Aepsilons]

Russia and Japan have complementary needs. I say a match made in heaven!

Both are geographic neighbors as well. Its not an issue of "if cooperation is necessary", but an issue of "when cooperation can be increased to higher levels than current levels". Japan can practically solve its energy security issue , energy needs, immediately, with Russia. They have the natural gas, they have the petro, they have the uranium, they have the plutonium, they have enough land to build solar farms to fuel Japan ten times over.

Its not an issue of "If", it is an issue of "WHEN".

And that's just the truth.

 

[Spectre]

Both are geographic neighbors as well. Its not an issue of "if cooperation is necessary", but an issue of "when cooperation can be increased to higher levels than current levels". Japan can practically solve its energy security issue , energy needs, immediately, with Russia. They have the natural gas, they have the petro, they have the uranium, they have the plutonium, they have enough land to build solar farms to fuel Japan ten times over.

Its not an issue of "If", it is an issue of "WHEN".

And that's just the truth.

Absolutely true. The only issue is unpredictability of Russia and its ego-centric leadership which cannot be relied upon to act logically and in their own best interests.

Based on cold-hard logic alone Russia should be a Top trade partner of Japan with bilateral trade comparable or exceeding that of US and China individually.