Murmansk region. Municipalities East Region of Lapland want that ministry of transport considered possibility of construction of iron roads to the Arctic Ocean aside Murmansk, the TV company reports Yle . As the Finnish officials consider, would be easier and most cheaper road to construct through Sal's town to Kandalaksha, from where further the train Murmansk or on a network of Open joint-stock company "Rossiyskiye zheleznyye dorogi" to China could follow aside.
Now there is a discussion of opportunities and economic validity of construction of a new site of the road to Region of Lapland. The report on this offer has to be ready in February of the 2018th.
the Construction project of a branch line in this place appeared still at the beginning of two-thousand, reminds agency to Regnum . The first assessment was executed in 2004. Finland and the municipal authorities East Region of Lapland supported its government. The option of creation of a branch of Sal — Kandalaksha received a positive assessment of Ministry foreign trade and development of Finland in the 2008th. The same year the project was included in the "Expectations of Regions from Barents Cooperation" program within the Barents Evro-Arktichesky Region program (BEAR). The project was recognized profitable, but for various reasons business while did not reach its realization.