Cargo being handled in EU states for Russia to transfer to Russian ports – RF Duma

Those 30% of cargo being handled today in EU states for further transportation to Russia will transfer to Russian ports due to implementation of new transport strategy, Rosbalt quotes Evgeni Fedorov, Chairman of Duma’s Committee on economic policy and entrepreneurship, as saying at the conference “St. Petersburg – marine capital of Russia. City’s transit transportpotenial”. “St. Petersburg will take the central place in cargo transit between Russia and European Union,” Fedorov said. According to him, it should be attributed to further development of the Big Port of St. Petersburg as well as ports of Lomonosov, Bronka and Kotlin island.

Nikolai Asaul, Chairman of Petersburg Governmental Committee on Transit Transport Policy noted that the port of St. Petersburg handles one third of container cargo today. “During a 6-month period of the current year, container throughput of the Big Port of St. Petersburg grew by 17%,” he said.