OREANDA-NEWS. Russian Railways plans to modernize Baikal - Amur Main Line (BAM), in particular, it plans to extend the Kuznetsovsky tunnel, one of the railway's bottlenecks. The modernization aims to increase the traffic capacity in the direction of the terminals under construction in the ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan in the Russian Far East. The terminals are constructed by extracting companies, which will benefit the most from BAM modernization.