This week the authorities of the Primorie Territory have announced their intent to continue active development of container transportation at the Far East through construction of five new container terminals in the south of Primorie. Besides, they also plan a modernization of existing transshipment facilities, the throughput of which grew by over one third in 2007. Experts say there are perspectives for the development though the main problem hindering improvement of container transportation is poor infrastructure and high cost of container handling operations