Cargo traffic at Ust-Luga-Baltijsk-Mukran service is to multiply in the nearest future, RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the presidium when commenting on Russia’s accession to the Convention on international railway transportation. This measure is to provide conditions for expansion of railway-ferry link between Baltijsk and Ust-Luga on the one side and German port Sassnitz/Mukran as well as other European ports on the other side. Russian carriers will be able to form their own railway-ferry services at the Baltic Sea.
“In the result we hope to considerably improve competitiveness of our railways and their transit potential,” Putin underlined.
The Convention on international railway transportation was signed in Bern on May 9, 1980. It is aimed to simplify international railway transportation including that, which involves maritime transport. As of today, the Convention was signed by 43 countries including those of the European Union, Asia and Africa.