Rail Baltica - Europe's New $6.3BN Transport Project
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- A new railway mega project is under construction across the Baltics - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Today we explore the insane engineering behind Rail Baltica and we explore some of the construction challenges behind this new rail transport project
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An insanely expensive project, are there any other rail projects like this we should cover?
Its cheap ,860 km ,in England 100 km cost 100 bilions
Hopefully you won't make any more videos that contain as many careless mistakes as this one.
Surprisingly cheap.
Probably be more careful before you make your next video. Maybe it’s a good idea to think before using terms like insanely expensive. It makes you look completely unreliable
Talk about rail projects in Russia. A few of them are way more ambitious than this one
Why the heck is the first clip a Russian intercity train💀💀😭
The only railways that are on time :D
@@evgenyishchenko Really? I highly doubt this.
@@fidenemini111 what underdevelopped country are you supposed to be from, Germany?
It costs 25billion, over 4x what’s claimed in this video
If you have the chance to visit the Baltics - do it! Amazing countries with amazings landscapes, great food and a lot of nice people! Glad that they are part of the EU!
Most of the commenters on this video, you suckers, who swallowed a fishhook of false propaganda! Because you have no idea that there is such a thing as "economic logic": So, someone will earn money for the implementation of this project, but which product from the Baltic states will go to Europe on this expensive piece of iron ...? Obviously, it will be Baltic canned sprats? But, in Europe, sprats are bought only by Russia, which has its own railway network... 2) Having Russian railway standards and with favorable political relations between Russia and the Baltic States, the ports of the Baltic States can accept goods going to Europe from China, Japan and South Korea via Russian railways! This economic advantage for the Baltic States will be destroyed if the standard of the railway in the Baltic states changes (but not for Russia, because Russia has its own large port in the Baltic) So the conclusion is: For the Baltic States the "Rail Baltic" project deprive all three Baltic countries of their economic future. 3) This economic route, which connects Europe with China, Japan, South Korea, as well as Iran and India through the Baltic states, is an alternative to another route - a longer ocean route through the Suez Canal, which is controlled by Great Britain and the United States - which will make every effort to destroy the trade route through the countries The Baltic States - so, the Rail Baltica - the killer of the economic future for the Baltic states.
They're glad they're in the EU. We propped them up with our hard earned money while my country goes down the toilet.
And cheap too compared to other countries using €
@@wellardme And your country is?
@@fidenemini111 UK 🇬🇧
Its cheap ,england 100 km cost 100 bilions
РЖД train in first seconds of video?! Really? In 2024?!😮
Maybe because this new line will see Russians trains on it if these chihuahua baltic countries keep running their mouths off.
A hot theme is the Tallinn - Helsinki Tunnel. China offered to build this tunnel. But Europe has to pay with all ore found in Finnland. Fortunately EU and Finnland has not supported this idea. But there are discussions to build a Spain - Marokko tunnel. If EU is willing to pay such an nonsence project, than EU should rather fund the Tallinn - Helsinki Tunnel. May be something around 20 Billion Euro. But the Spain - Marokko tunnel would cost at least the same, because the geology there is much more complecated.
Southern EU members connecting with the northern Africa gives natural gas and natural resources to the EU, that would be independent from BOTH the Russia and USA. What does rail Baltica gives to the EU? Waste of money?
@@Just_another_Euro_dude To transfer gas and electricity you need simply a undersea cable or pipe. This is much cheaper than a tunnel. And ore etc. can be brought by ship to European habours in Italy or the north, where some steel mills may still exist. But a traffic tunnel to Africa is complete nonsense !! Moreover it is a Green lie, that africa can solve european energy demands. Africa needs energy for its own purposes to develope Africa to an attractive space to live. So that migration can be stopped.
1:13 Kaliningrad has disappeared
Kind of prediction.
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It looks Latvia have to cut significantly costs of their part of the project dropping dual-layer bridge to only-rail variant and building only single-track initial line for beginning and most probably they'll drop Riga-RigaAirport loop, hopefully converting it to speed tram (LRT) system.
Not a good opening shot showing modern Russian rolling stock.
Between Estonia and Finland, look like underwater rail way?
Budget went into 15b or something close to it, but still cheaper than London to Birmingham HS line. I’m from Latvia originally Vsem Privet, Sveiki ❤
There are many careless mistakes in the video.
I knew it’d be rough when the AI thumbnail showed what looks pipes being laid down instead of tracks.
This is great for 🌎🌍🌏 world commerce ! Nice engineering. This could also set the stage for a tunnel bored under the Bering straights for connection to north America and eventually a connection through the Darian straits to south America. Also this could set the stage for a world 🌎🌍🌏 electrical grid connection along with this type of infrastructure built
A Bering Strait tunnel would connect Middle of Nowhere, Sibiria, with Middle of Nowhere, Alaska. Connecting the tunnel to the rail or road network on either side would be a gargantuan project.
Let's see if it will be built by 2050...
2:26 Why you are using proper letters for languages like German, Lithianian, Latvia or Estonia but not for Białystok in Poland? ;-)
tourism will definitely be a big benefactor in this project….
Misleading title. The total cost is almost 25BN now....
Source?
@@darthmaul216 Ministry of Transportation of Latvia
@@janisjaunslavietis983 The project has evolved significantly since its 2017 cost-benefit analysis due to various factors. The first phase, aiming to establish an operational Rail Baltica line across the Baltic states connecting to Poland by 2030, is estimated to cost 15.3 billion EUR. According to Cost-Benefit Analysis (2024) Rail Baltica’s economic benefits, both direct and induced, are expected to surpass costs and amount in total to 48 billion EUR for the Baltic states.
Maybe 10Bn for the "unamed" ones? Source RB official website, and a bit more info:
Costs of Rail Baltica have more than doubled from the initial 2017 estimation (EUR 5.8 billion), reaching EUR 15.3 billion, the updated cost-benefit analysis presented on June 10, 2024 says.
This new estimation considers the costs of Rail Baltica for the first phase, which aims to build an operational railway corridor across the three Baltic states connecting to Poland by 2030.
The findings of the updated cost-benefit analysis suggest that Rail Baltica is economically viable and expected to generate GDP growth from 0,5 to 0,7% contributing EUR 15.5 billion to EUR 23.5 billion to GDP of the Baltic states, which is considered indirect benefits, and it will also additionally have a direct economic net benefits value of EUR 6.6 billion. The related broader economic benefits include military mobility, environmental sustainability, social equality, corridor synergies, and supply chain impacts.
The analysis values from 2017 were adjusted for inflation between 2017 and 2022, considering an inflation rate of 40% in the Baltic States during this period. The rise in cost is also attributed to the following factors:
31% of the increase resulted from higher cost predictions due to scope project increase between 2017 and 2023, which included additional regional mobility connections, changes in technical standards according to unified design guidelines, and enhancements in safety and performance;
51% of the increase was due to more accurate data for costs due to design advancement from value engineering level to master design;
18% was due to additional external requirements and factors such as third-party requirements, various institutional technical regulations, interoperability technical specifications, and other changes.
Taking 40% inflation into account, the cost drivers would respectively add 19% for scope changes, 30% for contingencies and design advancement, and 11% for additional external requirements.
According to the cost-benefit analysis study, Rail Baltica’s cost is estimated at EUR 26 million per kilometer. Studies have shown that for similar high-speed rail projects in Europe, the average cost per kilometer is EUR 24 million and might reach up to EUR 35 million per kilometer.
Source: The Railway Pro Website --
again 10BN missing ------ lol.
Not sure what you mean with "Ulames". I don't know what you mean, is that a geographical name in Estonia?
it's how German and English people say Ülemiste 🤪
If this project happened in india our wise activist will swarm the construction site and protest without solutions/alternatives
Please dont mix up millions and billions, adding 3 zeros on some of the given investments would be nice. 10:40
One tenth the price of HS-2
The title is misleading. Its almost 25BN !!!!!
@@1111unamed plus Rail Baltica is 5x the length of HS2. HS2 is €500 million per KM.
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*Transportation of illicit cargos more freely*
Thats exactly what this is for surely
Great way to start video about Rail Baltica… by showing Russian Railways train 😂😃
870 km is monumental?? Welcome to India...
870 km of modern secure high speed rail where people don't ride on a train roof
How about just buying stadler flirts? It could be much cheaper and they can use all guages?
WTF??? EU Map is WRONG UK is no longer in EU!!!
May be it;s a prediction UK will be back when the Rail Baltica is finished.
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And you expect anybody bothers to google a translation? Weirdo.
If I had a euro every time I read or watch smth about this monumental construction I’d have enough money to actually finish it
They’ve turned Balkan 😂
In fact Chinese already finished fast rail in Serbia in 2022, from Belgrade to Novi Sad, connected two biggest cities of Serbia. And now they are buisy building the fast rail from Novi Sad to Subotica, right to the border of Serbia with Hungary. Later the fast rail will continue all the way to Hungarian capital Budapest. So parts of Balkans ALREADY got modern, beautiful fast rail, unlike any part of the Baltics. 😊 Let's not even talk about the highways. There's many perverted beautiful highways and HUGE bridges now in Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, southern Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, southern Croatia... It's all either done or being built.
$6.3 BN ? Please do the research... How about $24.5 BN. The Latvias part alone now is $10 BN. CBA analysis shows that this project is useless at these price levels.
100% correct.
Idk I searched and baltics have a very high amount of inflation but the new estimate from only a week or so ago was 15,3 billion euros = 16,4 billion dollars. Significantly lower than the number you posted
@@jakob7116 as a local... I can confirm. The price tag is closing up to 25BN.
Source?
@@jakob7116that’s for the first phase. They had to divide it into phases because it got so expensive
Why did Hitler build the Autobahn??? To move troops quickly. This is NATO's defense line against Russia. It's not to move pineapples from Sicily to Estonia easily, tho this is a benefit. It's always about power.
The same Autobahn that was built literally in the centre of the country? What use is moving troops inside the centre of your own country? It would have made more sense (from warfare point of view) to build Autobahn in the Prussian regions, yet he didnt, because Autobahn wasnt primarily for warfare but economy
@@98TrueRocker98 The German ports are in the north. In those days there were no hiways. Just roads that went from one village to another. Very slow and time consuming.To move troops and equipment - tanks, trucks -- from occupied Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, To the eastern front or the southern front - by ship thru the English Channel was too dangerous - they could send them to the northern ports - and a very safe route, down the middle of Germany therefore east to the eastern front or south to the southern front - Italy, Greece. Also the munitions factories had to send their weapons east, west, north, south - Also FOOD for the troops. This rapid north to south allowed munitions to be sent safely to the various fronts.
@@MrMigueldelaO The reason for the highway that you claim sounds extremely reaching. "They built infrastructure BUT FOR WAR" is like saying they built industry for war, they made trade agreements for war, they made technological breakthroughs for war, increased birthrate for war etc... Its all a terrible reach, especially since Germany was focusing east, not west
@@98TrueRocker98 Ten years later the Americans said - Duh - Those Germans are smart - and introduced the Interstate hiway system for the same reason - if ever there is a conflict they can move the military. But the people who originated this concept were the romans.
@@MrMigueldelaO You completely ignored what I wrote
Just because some things can be repurposed for war doesnt mean they were primarily made for war. I know, shocking
Thieves' scam
I see a significant problem here. A lack of DEI iniatives. WAY too many white guys involved.
Wtf are you yapping about. 99.9% of the population of the baltic states are white
Have you been to eastern europe? What are you talking about?
Hopefully, DEI, ESG and CRT will eventually be banned worldwide!
Cry more BIPOC, our time is coming and you'll see even more of us
There only are white people in these countries. They also don't want ant "diversity".