With a view to make international trade procedures simpler, faster and leas costly, RF Government has approved a Roadmap for improvement of customs administration, RF Deputy Transport Minister Victor Olersky has said today at the conference Saint-Petersburg Logistics Days organised by the Finnish-German Chamber of Commerce, port of Hamburg and media-group PortNews.
Taking into consideration that Russian seaports play an important role in both foreign trade activity and domestic transportation of Russia, one of the points of the Roadmap provides for the development of a special Plan of activities aimed at the improvement of the transport situation in seaports. Victor Olersky says this document was approved two weeks ago.
The Plan deals with major challenges of the stable functioning of marine check points operation of which influences the competitiveness of seaports and their attractiveness for investors.
As proposed by the business community, the Plan implementation indicator is the time spent by goods in a seaport excluding the storage time. It will let trace the dynamics of the Plan implementation year by year up to 2017, from 8 to 2 days.
Average time spent by goods in Russian seaports used to total 15 days while it is has been reduced to 7-8 days through the amendments introduced into the Standard Procedure so that handling operations could be carried out parallel to the control activities, Victor Olersky says.
“I have recently met the management of Russia’s largest container operator Global Ports. They tell that average time spent by containers at Petrolesport terminal has reduced to 4.3 days today. I think it is a revolution!”, Victor Olersky says.
The official also emphasized that implementation of the Roadmap activities will let improve the efficiency of state control in seaports and consequently create the environment for a more favorable investment climate in the Russian Federation.
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