MONGOLIAN TRANSPORT POLICY ON OPERATIONAL CONNECTIVITY FOR INTEGRATED INTERMODAL TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS IN THE REGION

Forum on Sustainable transport connectivity between Europe and Asia in the framework of the 62 session of UNECE and Working party on Intermodal transport and Logistics

30 OCTOBER 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Ministry of Road and Transport Development of MongoliaMongolia Page 1 CONTENT

 General information

 Legal framework and Intergovernmental Agreements

 Operational practice along international corridors

 Facilitation measures for international railway transport

 Vision and challenges

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 2 Mongolia is one of largest landlocked countries in the world, with a territory extending over 1.5 million square kilometers. It is bordered by Peoples Republic of on three sides, to the East, South and West and by Russian Federation to the North. The country is rich in a variety of mineral resources and has substantial livestock herds, ranking first in per capita ownership in the world. Mongolia is a sparsely populated country, with a population of around 3.2 million, with population density of 2 persons per square kilometers. However, more than 60 percent of the population live in urban area.

The construction of new roads and the maintenance of existing ones are being given high priority of the Mongolian Government. As part of the Government of Mongolia’s 2016-2020 action plan road and transport sector’s objective is to expand and develop transport and logistics network that supports economic improvement, meet social needs and requirements and provides safe and comfortable service.

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 3 Global Competitiveness Index 4.0, -infrastructure 2018 51 43 RUSSIA 103 9 MONGOLIA USA 3 SWITZERLAND 29 CHINA

1 SINGAPORE

Covering 140 countries.

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 4 TRANSPORT SECTOR IN MONGOLIA

132 112 46.5 km thousand km 1.9 thousand km 14.9 thousand km thousand km WATERWAY 63% (international and state) of total cargo AIRWAY RAILWAY ROADWAY

AUTOTRANSPORT

Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia 5Page 5 STATISTICAL INFORMATION OF TRANSPORT IN MONGOLIA

Total freight /year, thousand ton/ 80000 69,838.8 70000 60000 53,981.1 50000 40,398.4 40000 29,415.9 32,197.3 30000 23,670.0 20000 8,949.2 10,641.8 10000 0 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016 2017 2018

Total number of passengers /year, million people/

300 250.7 259.9 264.0 192.8 215.7 200.4 200 110.3 93.0 100

0 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016 2017 2018

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 65 LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK

Mongolian Government main policy documents: • Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision-2030,19th Resolution of the State Great Hural, Mongolia, 2016; • State Policy on Railways Transport, 32nd Resolution of the State Great Hural, Mongolia 2010; • State Policy on Civil Aviation up to 2020, 18th Resolution of the State Great Hural, Mongolia, 2013; • Action plan of Government of Mongolia for 2016-2020, 45th Resolution of the State Great Hural, Mongolia, 2016; • Economic Recovery Program, 71st Resolution of the State Great Hural, 2016; • Program on Development Road, Government Resolution №142, 2017; • Program of the Three pillars Development Policy, Government Resolution №42, 2018

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 7 INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS

1. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON ROAD TRANSPORTATION ALONG THE ASIA HIGHWAY NETWORK BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; 2. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS OF MONGOLIA AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON TERMS FOR RAIL FREIGHT TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION 3. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON THE ACCESS TO AND FROM THE SEA AND TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION THROUGH CHINESE TERRITORY BY MONGOLIA, 2014 – INSTEAD OF 1991; 4. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS OF MONGOLIA AND PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON DEVELOPING COOPERATION IN RAILWAY TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION; 5. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON THE ACCESS TO AND FROM THE SEA AND TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION THROUGH RUSSIAN FEDERATION TERRITORY BY MONGOLIA 1992; 6. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON DRY PORTS;

Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia Page 8 INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS

• CONVENTION ON THE CONTRACT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY ROAD (1956.05.19)

• CONVENTION ON ROAD TRAFFIC (1968.11.08)

• THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT OF GOODS UNDER COVER OF TIR CARNETS (TIR CONVENTION)

• INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS ON ROAD TRANSPORTATION WITH KAZAKHSTAN, LATVIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA, BELORUSSIA, TURKEY, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 9 INTERNATIONAL ROAD CORRIDORS

West corridor - Total length is 1. : AH3, AH4, AH32, AH35 741 km. Construction work is ongoing and will be complete 2. Transport corridor of Economic Cooperation in in 2020. Central Asia: 4A, 4B, 4C Central corridor - Total length is 990 km. 3.GTI corridor: 1a, 1b Reconstruction work for the 345 4. Economic km road of direction -Altanbulag started Corridor in 2019 by ADB and EBRD soft Mongolia-Russia- loan. China Roads from Capital city to Centre of provinces was included in the Mongolian Government action plan 2016-2020. Total length is 5100 km. Construction work is will be complete in 2020.

East corridor - Total length is 695 km. MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 10 TRANSPORTATION ROUTE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON ROAD TRANSPORTATION ALONG THE ASIA HIGHWAY NETWORK BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

THIRD PARTY AGREEMENT

Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia Page 11 MONGOLIAN RAILWAY CORRIDOR

The shortest railway corridor connecting Asia and Europe.

Railway corridor №1B

Member since 1956.

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 12 MONGOLIAN RAILWAY CORRIDOR

Naushki - Sukhbaatar

Total length 1110 km Line type Single-track Track 1520 mm gauge

Carrying 25 mill. ton per year, Freight /million ton/ capacity Transit 3.3 Import 13% Throughput 14 couple trains per day 2.8 Local capacity 11% -Erlian10.2 Rolling 6577 wagons Zamiin-Ude 40% Export stocks 182 locomotives 9.2 Maximum 90 km/hour for passenger train 36% speed 80km/hour for freight train

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 13 RAILWAY CORRIDORS

Northern Corridor /-Artssuuri, 770 км/ Eastern Corridor • Erdenet- Ovoot (545 км) /-Khuut-Bichigt, 426 км/ • Ovoot- Artssuuri (225 км)

Western Central Corridor /Sukhbaatar-Zamyn-Uud, 1110 км/ Corridor • Potential capacity – 100 Mt, /Under evaluation / • Bogdkhan bypass Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP OPERATIONAL PRACTICE ALONG INTERNATIONAL CORRIDOR Railway crossing points through Trans-Mongolian corridor №1B

China Mongolia Russian Federation

Erlian

Zamiin-Ude Sukhbaatar Naushki

Gauge: 1,435 mm Gauge: 1,520 mm Gauge: 1,520 mm  Different track gauge  Same track gauge,  Transshipment is done on receiving side railway station  No transshipment

Reducing the travel time: freight transportation 850-950 km per day.

Russia to China: 28 hours, became 27% faster

China to Russia: 31 hours, became 26% faster

Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia Page 15 FACILITATION MEASURES FOR INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRANSPORT Railway transit tariff rate

15.5% 65.5 %

Differentiation rate Container Transshipment system in tariff: based transportation tariffs for on volume of tariff reduced containers transportation introduced in 2017

E-sign was fully implemented in 2019 between Ulaanbaatar Railways and Russian Railways. Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia Page 16 FACILITATION MEASURES AT RAILWAY BORDER CROSSINGS Simplification: Development of sufficient and efficient capacities for transshipment: Zamiin-Uud Regional logistic park

Zone-1: 50T CRANE 4 RAILWAY ACROSS

Zone-3 Enclosed Warehouse

Zone-3: Open Warehouse

Zone-2: 70Т GANTRY CRANE OPERATIONAL AREA

Capacity 5 million ton/year Investment 71,64 million USD Operation starts 2019 Ministry of Road and Transport Development of Mongolia Page 17 REGIONAL LOGISTICS CENTERs

ALTANBULAG

TSAGAANNUUR

CHOIBALSAN ULAANBAATAR

KHUUT

BURGASTAI

ZAMIIN-UUD

GURVANTES KHANGI TAVAN-TOLGOI Zamiin-Uud completed

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP Page 19 TRANSPORT VISION

Needs to implement with Investment projects technical assistance Impleme Finances, Eastern No Name of projects ntation USD highway period Western To develop integrated data corridor 2018 - 1 systems for roads and 600.000 railway 2020 corridor transport Feasibility study of Railway 2018 – 2 Centralized Traffic Control 500.000 2019 Center To prepare of Regional Road 3 Development and Maintenance 2020 400.000 Project - II Phase. Detail drawing of multimodal Since Eastern railway corridor - Total length Eastern highway corridor - 1 logistic center in Hushigt 1,5 million 2020 is 695 km. Western railway corridor Total length is 695 km. valley (near new airport) was included for State policy on Support the introduce of Since railway transportation. The Mongolian 2 logistics international 1.0 million 2020 The Government of Mongolia planning government planning to standards in Mongolia to connect the western railway include on the ESCAP The systematical analysis on Since 3 1.0 million corridors to the international railway road network as the the Mongolian road sector 2020 network. eastern highway corridor. Detail drawing of “Bogdkhan” Since Pre-feasibility studies of the western 4 1.5 million railway 2020 railway corridor are planned for 2019- Since 2020. Looking for finance 5 Road safety introduction 1.0 million 2020

MinistryMinistry of of Road Road and and Transport Transport Development Development of of Mongolia Mongolia – Regional MeetingUNESCAP CHALLENGES

1. Lack of available wagons for reloading both on Zamiin-Ude and Erlian stations. 2. Lack of cooperation between internal and external stakeholders: Electronic information exchange between railways and control authorities. 3. Long time taken for freight trains to cross the border at the Erlian/Zamiin- Ude. 4. Lengthy transshipment operations, limited reloading/receiving capacities. 5. The transit transportation is low due to poor quality of roads. 6. Capacity building improvement.

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