Wednesday, 12 February 2025
The meeting of the final board was chaired by the Minister Alexey Lyakhnovich. The event was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivak, representatives of ministries and departments, national and local government bodies, and heads of enterprises.
As noted at the board meeting, in 2024, which passed in the country under the sign of quality, all efforts in the transport industry were mobilized to increase its competitiveness, technical re-equipment, and improve working conditions.
The share of gross added value in transport activities in the structure of the national GDP increased from 4.9% to 5.1% based on the results of last year. Transport services account for 50% of the country's service exports.
Work continues on developing optimal logistics schemes for delivering Belarusian export products to foreign markets. Speaking about rail transport, the growth in container traffic in the direction China – Belarus – China was 144.3%.
In the road construction sector, by the end of 2024, 5.3 thousand km of national and local roads were repaired and reconstructed, as well as 6.4 thousand linear meters of bridge structures on them (121 bridges).
"Thanks to the increase in the volume of work on current repairs of road surfaces, potholes on public roads have decreased by almost 4 times, critical potholes - by 11 times. Thus, almost 12% of the national roads from their total length, which is 16 thousand kilometers, have been repaired," said the Minister of Transport and Communications Alexey Lyakhnovich speaking at the board.
In 2024, the transport complex ensured the fulfillment of all target indicators. Export of transport services amounted to 4.5 billion dollars, or 119.6% compared to 2023.
The rolling stock is being updated. Over the past year, about 2,700 units of freight railway rolling stock, as well as 695 vehicles of automobile and urban electric passenger transport, have been purchased. Over 890 units of road and municipal equipment have been purchased for the maintenance of highways.
The Minister focused on the strategic directions for the development of all sub-sectors of the transport complex in 2025.
Regarding to automobile and urban electric transport, this is the improvement of the route network and the creation of new passenger services. Regarding to rail transport, the key tasks include increasing the volume of container transportation, and regarding to air transport, increasing the volume of passenger transportation by opening new routes and replenishing the fleet of aircraft.
Construction work to upgrade the road infrastructure will be carried out within the framework of the State Investment Program for 2025. It is necessary to reconstruct 11 objects of the national road infrastructure. During the construction and reconstruction of national roads, great attention is paid to the installation of cement concrete pavements.
As Alexey Lyakhnovich noted, in the Year of Improvement and the five-year quality plan, the priorities in the industry will be the creation of a modern, convenient and safe transport infrastructure, the renewal of rolling stock, and the digitalization of technological and business processes in transport.
The Minister focused on important projects that are planned to be implemented in the near future. "It is necessary to begin implementing projects on high-speed transport links from Minsk to Minsk National Airport, modernizing the infrastructure for the development of fast and comfortable transport links between Minsk and its satellite cities," said Alexey Lyakhnovich.
Speaking at the board with a closing speech, the Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivak drew the attention of the heads of industry organizations to the need to concentrate efforts on fulfilling the indicators of the target plan. In the area of automobile passenger transportation, the Deputy Prime Minister noted the importance of providing the population with reliable transport links.
Anatoly Sivak also focused on quality. "All issues related to quality should be of primary importance. The most important indicator of quality in the industry is the safety of transport activities," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.
