The complex is located in Engels, Saratov region, near the most important trade centers:
–Moscow – 800 km;
–Volgograd – 400 km;
–Voronezh – 500 km;
–Samara – 450 km;
–Tambov – 400 km;
–Penza – 250 km;
–Ulyanovsk – 460 km.
Saratov region is a federal subject of the Russian Federation and is the part of the Volga Federal District. For about 2,521,759 people live in the Saratov region. So the population of Engels is 202,838 people, while only 285 000 people live in the Engels region.
As for the industrial sector the largest share belongs to energetic (45,5 %), engineering (19,1 %), chemical and petrochemical industry (15,6 %), food industry (9.2 %).
In Saratov region there are large sources of electricity: Balakovo NPP (4000MVt ) and Saratov HPP (1360 MW). The total developed electric power of these power plants makes ¼ of Volga District electric power and 3% of electric power of the whole country.
Leader Industrial Logistic Park is the most developed and modern facility of this kind in the Saratov region.
Advantages
- Leader Industrial Logistic Park is located on the crossing of the main transport corridors, which connect the ports of the Black Sea to the central part of Russia and Ural; and also on the crossing of the highways passing from Kazakhstan and Central Asia to Southeast part of Russia and Europe;
- Opportunity to consolidate cargo traffic and to optimize logistic terms and costs of delivery;
- Zone of business availability: regions of the Central, Volga and Southern Federal districts, and also western part of Kazakhstan. Total population of regions – more than 50 million people.
Key direction of the development of transit and trade traffic flows within the corridor “North – South ” is a railway direction Buslovskaya – St. Petersburg – Moscow – Ryazan – Kochetovka – Rtishevo – Saratov – Volgograd – Astrakhan (length – 2513 km).
The main advantages of the International transport corridor “North -South ” before the other routes ( in particular, the sea route through the Suez Canal ) are in reduction in two or more times the distance of transportation. Therewith the transportation’s cost of containers from Germany and Finland to India will be essentially less than the cost of transportation by sea route.