Consideration of the possibility to restore the container transportation former growth at the Eastern Polygon

Due to the sanctions and reorientation of cargo flows from the west to the east of the country, a lot of attention is being paid to the Eastern Polygon transport, in the particular, to the mainline transport infrastructure development, the formation of multimodal transportation, transport and logistics hubs, in order to increase the container transportation. This transportation is considered as key cargoes, forming a new vector of the Far East region economy. The article reveals the current state and problems of transportation volume development at the Eastern Polygon. The author has made the analysis of the Eastern polygon railway shortage, seaports capacities in the region, as well as a cross-section of the global container transportation market current situation and possibility of our inclusion into the Asian transport and logistics services market. Special attention is paid to the problems of infrastructural imbalances in terms of seaports, the Eastern Polygon railway, and container and coal projects implementation. The relevance of this topic is due to the decrease in the Eastern Polygon container transportation indicators in 2025. It is necessary to identify the existing barriers and define possible ways of resolving this issue. It is concluded that in order to restore the former growth of container traffic at the Eastern Polygon, the systemic problems of transport infrastructure development are to be considered and solved, taking into account the problems caused by the sanctions. The infrastructural imbalance at the Eastern Polygon can be partially solved by container flows synchronizing and creating transport and logistics hubs, having subdivided them into regional and international ones. Some recommendations regarding the transport infrastructure development at the Eastern Polygon are presented by the author.