Massive investment in Russian roads planned

Russia’s Transport Ministry is planning a massive investment into infrastructure running until 2020. The plans call for close to US$388 billion to be invested into transport infrastructure. This investment will come from a mixture of state and private sources, with the PPP model preferred for much of the transport programme. Some $5 billion will come from private sources only.
June 3, 2013 Read time: 1 min
Russia’s Transport Ministry is planning a massive investment into infrastructure running until 2020. The plans call for close to US$388 billion to be invested into transport infrastructure. This investment will come from a mixture of state and private sources, with the PPP model preferred for much of the transport programme. Some $5 billion will come from private sources only.

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