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Sep 12, 2014 (newstodate): Bratsk Airport, in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, is again surfacing as a projected transit point for trans-polar cargo flights between North America and the Far East as well as a regional airfreight hub.
Bratsk Airport is already designated as a diversion airport on the Polar Route 2, and in 2007, Russian-Canadian intergovenmental group examined three alternatives for a future cargo hub - Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk and Yakutsk, and Bratsk was found to be best located.
Bratsk Airport has a 3,160 m runway and serves as a base for cargo flights to Kamchatka.
The project foresees Bratsk Airport to service as a hub for freighters from China and Mongolia as well as a logistics center for east-west cargo traffic.
The projects has now been endorsed by the region's transport minister, and work on reconstruction of parts of the project will start in spring 2015.
Bratsk Airport is already designated as a diversion airport on the Polar Route 2, and in 2007, Russian-Canadian intergovenmental group examined three alternatives for a future cargo hub - Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk and Yakutsk, and Bratsk was found to be best located.
Bratsk Airport has a 3,160 m runway and serves as a base for cargo flights to Kamchatka.
The project foresees Bratsk Airport to service as a hub for freighters from China and Mongolia as well as a logistics center for east-west cargo traffic.
The projects has now been endorsed by the region's transport minister, and work on reconstruction of parts of the project will start in spring 2015.