Infrastructure
Transport infrastructure
Automobile transport
Total highway length in the region exceeds 8 300 km including those with hard
surface (8 000 km). The density makes up 220 km/1000 km2. Freight transportation
in the region is carried out by Republican Unitary Mogilev Automobile Enterprise
"Oblautotrans", Open Joint Stock Company "Mogilevautotrans", "Autopark № 4,
"ATEC", "Krichevgruzauto" and "Bobryisk - ATEP". Passenger traffic is carried
out using buses of Republican Unitary Automobile Enterprise "Oblautotrans".
During January - Oktober 2005 more than 5 326,8 thousand tons of goods were
conveyed with automobile transport. Passenger traffic is more than 90%
automobile. More than 200 million passengers are transported annually. Direct
routes connect Mogilev with Minsk, Grodno, Novogrudok, Gomel, Novopolotsk,
Baranovichi, Moscow, Smolensk, St-Petersburg and other cities.
Railway transport
The railways of Mogilev region are the property of Republican Unitary
Enterprise "Mogilev Brunch of Belarusian Railway". The railway of Mogilev region
is a complex multiple-discipline enterprise including more than 1 180 km of mail
railways, 495 stationary ones and 231 km of approach lines. Four out of 74
railway station departments carry out cargo operations. These stations accept
cargo to be delivered throughout Belarus, to CIS countries and abroad.
During January - October 2005 33 142 thousand ton of cargo were transported
by railroad. Mogilev is connected by means of railroad with all other regions of
Belarus, the Ukraine, Moldova, Baltic countries and some regions of Russian
Federation.
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