Igor Levitin on key priorities of Russia and EU transport co-operation

Igor Levitin, RF Minister of Transport, took part in an international conference ‘Transeuropean transport networks future: construction of links between Europe and the neighbouring countries’ in Naples on October 21, 2009. He reported at the seminar on ‘Transeuropean transport networks development in northern and eastern directions: tasks of effective use of various types of vehicles operation and their co-operation’, informed press-service of RF Mintrans.

Among perspective projects that would be advisable to take into consideration in elaboration and development of EU transport links he named construction of Ust-Luga Seaport with a possible cargo turnover of  120 million tons, building of a deep-water port in Kaliningrad Bay in north-eastern part of the Balga Peninsular, complex modernization and construction of new rail- and motor-ways and accesses, road crossings and interchanges, port terminals and information-communication infrastructure of Murmansk Transport Joint, development of the Northern Sea Route, and measures on a stage-wise commissioning of Russian inland waterways.