"Abbas Khatibi", vice president of road and railway development, said in an interview on Friday, regarding the details of infrastructure projects in the country's railway, highway and highway networks: 205 infrastructure projects in the form of 2,645 projects in the motorway, motorway and railway sectors in It is under construction.
He added: The daily value of contracts concluded for this number of projects is estimated at 220 trillion tomans and construction workshops are active all over the country.
Also, if the required credit is secured by the end of fiscal year 1401 (June 2023), it is possible to use a large part of the projects.
The vice president of railway development and construction of the country's Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation said: With the provision of the required credit, it is possible to operate 561 kilometers of railways in the form of five projects, 730 kilometers of roads and highways in the form of 88 projects, and 293 kilometers of highways in the form of five projects.
Regarding the latest state of the length of the country's railway network, he said: We have more than 14,000 kilometers of railway network in the country.
At the same time, the construction of 3 thousand 300 km of new railways is in the government's work plan and about 6300 km are also in the study stage.
According to Khatibi, the construction of 9,500 kilometers of railways in the country is in the work plan, and this objective is being pursued as part of the government's plan to complete the corridor and increase the load absorption of the region, and access to financial resources allows these projects to start as soon as possible.
The construction company's Vice President of Railway Development explained: In addition, five railway projects with physical improvements of more than 75% are under construction, which can be used by the end of the fiscal year. 1401 (June 2023).
He said about the details of these plans: "Mianeh-Bostanabad" railway is 44 km long with more than 80% physical progression, "Zahedan-Kash" railway is 154 km long with physical progression physical progress of 95%, part of which will be completed this The "Rasht-Anzali" railway line with a length of 37 km with a physical progress of 71% and the "Mianeh-Ardebil" railway line with a length of 175 km with physical progress of 85% are in the final phase of construction.
Khatibi said: If 4.4 trillion tomans of credit is provided, all announced projects will be ready for operation within one year.
The deputy director of railway development of the construction company announced that the average operation of railway lines over the past 10 years was 206 km and said: if the credit and operation of 561 km of railroads are provided in fiscal year 2022, the performance of the 13th government will increase to about 2.7 times the average.