The transport complex of the Oblast has all the necessary possibilities to cover the demand of enterprises and the population in transportation services.

Important transport routes cross the Gomelskaya Oblast. Major railway nodes are Gomel, Zhiobin, Kalinkovichi. The City of Gomel is located in the crossroads of the following railways: Odessa-Kiev- St. Petersburg, Bakhmach-Vilnius, Bryansk-Brest. Steel routes run from the Oblast capital to Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Brest, Bryansk.

There is a possibility for cargo operators from the regions of the Eastern Ukraine and Central Russia to get access to specialized sea ports of Klaipeda (Lithuania), Ventspils (Latvia), Kaliningrad (Russia).

The motor transport is substantial in the total volume of cargo and passenger freight. All district centers of the Oblast are connected with highways St. Petersburg-Kiev-Odessa, Bryansk-Kobrin, Gomel- Minsk, Gomel-Mozyr by bus routes.

Air-flights go from Gomel to many cities of the Republic and foreign countries.

The Sozh River links Gomel with the Dnieper. Regular navigation is performed on the rivers Pripyats, Dnieper and Berezina.

Within the united transportation system, the pipe-line transport is represented by the "Druzhba" international oil pipe-line, Mozyrsky petroleum product pipe-line, inter-republican and local gas pipe-lines.

RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION

Mogilev department of Belarusian Railways is a complex multi-profile company that oversees 30,000 sq m of Mogilev region territory, 5 districts of Minsk region, 3 of Gomel region and 1 of Vitebsk region. It services over 1,180 km of major, 495 station and 231 local railways. 4 permanent way divisions are in charge of controlling the above vital parameters - Krichev, Mogilev, Osipovichi and Bobruisk ones.

The department comprises 3 locomotive depots: Mogilev, Osipovichi, Krichev that carry out the entire range of repairing maneuver locomotives, maintenance of cargo diesel locomotive and diesel trains. Apart from that they certify steam-engine boilers, repair snow-ploughs, renovate condenser pits of diesel locomotives, assemble current collector runners of electric trains, etc.

Car depots - Mogilev and Osipovichi - are an important division of Mogilev Railways. They conduct capitals repairs of cargo cars, technical maintenance and preparation of cars for loading. Mogilev depot was thoroughly renovated recently and now can repair 4,600 cars annually. Osipovichi depot repairs containers, boxcars, makes cargo cars, offers technical maintenance and preparation of cars, etc.

Out of 74 stations of Mogilev Railways department, 4 conduct cargo operations. They accept and transport cargo Belarus, CIS and worldwide. In H1 of 2002 Mogilev Railways transported 15847.5 thousand tons of cargo and 11.7 million passengers. Cargo turnover totaled 2031.9 million tons per km (109.3% against the corresponding period of last year).