“The main source of investment return in large-scale infrastructure projects is the full implementation of the tariff policy. A reduction in the railway tariff can directly increase the payback period of infrastructure projects, complicating their implementation and limiting opportunities for further development of railway infrastructure, which is built, among other things, to transport such bulk commodities as coal,” believes Roman Martyshkin, Deputy Head of the Center for Macroeconomics and Forecasting Methodology at the Institute for Transport Economics and Development (IEDT).

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