VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 12 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could discuss the possibility of reviving the Khasan-Rajin rail project, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said.
"This matter will probably also be discussed during the talks that will be held," Rudenko told reporters on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
The reconstruction of the rail line between the Khasan station in Russia's Primorye Territory and the North Korean port of Rajin on the shore of the Sea of Japan was launched in October 2008, when the first segment of the rail track was laid at North Korea's Tumangang station. The railroad's Tumangang-Rajin section was put into operation in September 2013. A new transloading terminal in the Rajin port became operational in July 2014, when the Khasan-Tumangang rail border crossing also opened to cargo traffic.
The sides initially planned to build a container terminal able to handle 100,000 20ft containers a year, but then made a joint decision to also build bulk cargo processing infrastructure due to changes in the cargo traffic market and the structure of cargo flows.