Optimization of Costs for Freight Transportation Across the River

On February 17, 2020, the results of the competition for the determination of a private concessionaire for the design, construction and operation of a bridge over the Lena River in the region of Yakutsk were summed. The winner of the competition was the consortium of Rostec State Corporation and the VIS Group. The commissioning of the bridge is scheduled for 2025. The new bridge should connect Eastern Siberia with the ports of the Sea of Okhotsk through the transport corridor from Irkutsk to Magadan, which will allow the organization of the Northern Economic Belt. Russia will be able to get access to the Sea of Okhotsk and to the shores of its eastern seas not only through the southern borders, the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Vladivostok and Khabarovsk regions, but much to the north. The construction of the bridge will allow the year-round connection of Yakutsk with the left-bank territory of the republic, with the Russian railway network, will connect federal highways, which will provide year-round communication between Yakutia and other regions of the country, as well as reduce transport and logistics costs when delivering goods to Northeastern region of the Russian Federation. The paper has developed recommendations for transport companies to reduce costs for freight transportation by road using the bridge in order to reduce the cost of goods delivered.