The APEC Summit 2012 will take place in Vladivostok on September 8th and 9th 2012. The dates were announced late last week by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev while attending the Business Forum in Japan. Preparations for the APEC summit are well under-way in the Primorye Krai region which is seeing massive investment in infrastructure development to facilitate the summit and provide a lasting legacy for the region.

New roads, bridges, hotels are just some of many major infrastructure projects being undertaken.

As Vladivostok prepares to host the 2012 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit, complex infrastructure is being built with an army of Caterpillar construction equipment.

Over the past year local Cat dealer Amur Machinery has sold 29 Cat machines and rented another ten to the contractor, ZAO Crocus. In February an order of seventeen machines were delivered to the customer consisting of four 428 E backhoe, seven bulldozers, including two D9R machines, three rollers and three tracked excavators CS56 in the 35-ton class.

Cat Financial provided the funding for this mix of construction equipment.

Aging Vladivostok to get a shot in the arm

By John Bonar

Vladivostok, Peter the Great’s entrepot outpost in the Far East, sits like an aging dowager Empress with wrinkles cracking the foundation cream, pondering its future. Rickety trams trundling up and down the city’s hills, tawdry  outdoor markets, creaking infrastructure, leaking water mains and grey hulking concrete housing blocks on the hills ringing the immense bay that is home to Russia’s Pacific Fleet characterize the city as a Soviet relic.

Medvedev tours APEC sites

Last weekend President Dmitry Medvedev visited the construction sites of infrastructure for the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok.

He examined the site of the bridge being built over the Golden Horn Bay which will be the final stage of the highway from Vladivostok Airport to Knevichi Sanatorna station which will be used to ferry guests for the Summit to Goldobina Peninsula and the bridge to Russky Island which will be the summit venue.