Deputy prime minister, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev proposed a mechanism for compensating budget investments in the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) for companies wishing to reduce their obligations for cargo transportation along the route.
"I have instructed my colleagues to prepare such a proposal," Trutnev told reporters after a meeting of the presidium of the State Commission for the Development of the Arctic.
Trutnev said that the NSR cargo transportation plan for 2024, provided for by a trilateral agreement between the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, Rosatom and six shippers (Rosneft, NOVATEK, Gazprom Neft, Norilsk Nickel, Severnaya Zvezda, Baimskaya) is 71 million tons.
Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak noted in March that Russia expects to reach 40 million tons of cargo transportation through the NSR this year. As reported, the volume of cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route in 2023 amounted to 36.254 million tons, and in 2022 - to 34 million tons.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
