Chaly: the bridge across the Kerch Strait can be replaced by a ferry

The development of effective ferry can be an alternative project of construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait and would substantially reduce logistics tension with delivery of the items in the Crimea, said the head of the legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Alexey Chaly.

in the framework of the Federal target program (FTP) for socio-economic development of Crimea, on the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait will be allocated 247 billion, in addition, this amount does not include the far approaches. Transport crossing through the Kerch Strait as conceived by the Russian authorities must be built in 2018-2020.

" The cost of a ferry, which takes 15-20% load Kerch ferry and have substantially affect logistics in the Crimea, is 100-110 million euros, that is about seven billion. It's not 250 billion.. you Need to seriously think about that Sevastopol was the port through which goes logistics in Crimea ", - noticed Chaly.

analysis Chaly, the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait is an expensive project that will not be able to end effective to solve the logistic problems of the Crimea. Chaly emphasized that a substantial part of the population of Crimea is geographically closer to the city than to Kerch. In this regard, the question of the development of the port in Sevastopol and development of a ferry messages across the city-hero remains relevant.

The head of the Legislative Assembly said that in the world there are many examples of successful alternative means passenger transportation, such as in Sweden, Finland and Ireland, where developed intensive ferry letter.

the construction of transport crossing through the Kerch Strait will have to negotiate with Ukraine, said the first Chapter of Crimea Sergey Aksenov. He did not rule out that for this reason, the project start date may be delayed. Aksenov noticed that there are currently different variants of construction of the transport passage, and tunnel.


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