The modernization of vessels for the river passenger transportation in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Abstract

The river passenger transportation (hereinafter referred to as RPT) in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ensures the mobility of the population and maintains its status as a socially significant industry. Further development and improvement of the activities of river passenger transport should be associated, first of all, with its technical and technological modernization. Therefore, the issue of modernization of existing vessels of the RPT in Yakutia remains relevant. In order to update the RPT industry in the republic, it is necessary to develop a republic’s plan for the modernization of the RPT industry with the participation of a wide range of experts, and include them in the national development program for the Far East until 2035. The RPT should be integrated with the gas industry, a promising and successful one of the republic, subject to the transfer of the same economic and managerial issues of carriers from the state to the Russian corporate capital. In return, the RPTs should become new participants in the gas motor fuel market of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), take an active part in its formation and thereby receive an additional impetus for development on a new high-quality basis – gas fuel (LNG or LPG), and in fact, to enter a new segment for ourselves – the gas industry market. Similar projects are already being implemented in the transport industry, trucks, sea and river cargo transportation, rail transport in the Russian Federation and abroad, the next step is river passenger transportation and this step should be taken in Yakutia.