Motor Transport and Roads

Motor Transport and Roads. The general purpose motor transport of the Territory carry annually about 13,1 mln tons of cargo and over 260 mln of passengers. There are 21 motor transport enterprises including 6 passenger enterprises integrated into Association Khabarovskavtotrans.

The network of motor road is weakly developed and is concen - trated primarily in the soutern are of the Territory. The cities of Sovetskaya Gavan and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur have no motor road connection with territorial centre - Khabarovsk. The total length of motor roads is 12,2 thd km, including 6,6 thd km of inner secondary roads. The length of general purpose motor roads is 4,3 thd km, including 3,2 thd km of hard-surface roads. Main trunk roads include the roads of federalsignificance - Amur Chita-Khabarovsk and Ussuri Khabarovsk-Vladivostok and Khabarovsk- -Komsomolsk-on-Amur with bridge crossing Amur river near Komsomolsk, and Khabarovsk-Birobidzhan. Communication The main types of communication in the Khabarovsk Therritory are mail, and telephone communication. Telex and telefax are now widely used. It is planned to establish a centre of international communication in Khabarovsk. Stations of international satellite communication Russian- American joint venture Daltelecom-International , Russia - Japan joint venture Vostoktelecom and join-stock company Vostok- Infocosmos with going out for Korea,Japan,China and other countries have been put into service. In 1993-1995 an automatic telephone station for 41 thd customer telephone numbers is to be put into service. The number of telephones per 100 families in cities is 30,2 , in the countryside - 23,7 . TV broadcasting will be further developed in the Therritory. TV broadcasting three and more programmes make up 69,6 . Publisher International Information Agency Inform-Ethnos.

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