News – Government of Russia

A meeting of the final collegium of the Ministry of Transport took place in the column hall of the House of Unions. The collegium was attended by the Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit, heads of relevant committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council, subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Transport, and veterans of the transport industry.

Speaking to the participants, Vitaly Savelyev separately stopped at some results of 2024. The 2nd stage was completed, the 3rd stage in the development of the eastern railway training ground was launched. The target parameter of the freight ability in control sections in the volume of 180 million tons has been achieved. The construction of the first high-speed railway Moscow-St. Petersburg in Russia has begun-this summer construction work will be deployed at once in several sections of the VSM. The volume of passenger transportation in civil aviation in 2024 reached 111.7 million people. This is 6% more than in 2023. The capacity of seaports in 2024 reached 1.4 billion tons of the fleet of unmanned trucks on the M-11 highway is already 67 cars, in the future of this year-the launch of unmanned trucks on the CCA, and in 2026-on the M-12 Vostok highway. The modernization, technical equipment and equipment of 85 checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation was carried out.

“The transport complex is a system -forming industry of the national economy. It determines a strong foundation for the socio-economic development of the country. An important event in the transport industry was the formation in 2024 on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Putin the National Project “Effective Transport System“. Implementation of the National Proproject of National Project will increase by 2030 the volume of transportation through international transport corridors by at least one and a half times in relation to the level of 2021 and ensure an increase in aviation mobility of the population by at least 50% in relation to the level of 2023 ”, -said Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev.

“Thanks to systemic decisions, constant attention and control by the President, the personal participation of the Government Chairman, well-coordinated staff work with governors of the construction industry in terms of road transport activities in recent years has shown stable growth and very worthy results. From 2019 to 2024, we built and reconstructed more than 5 thousand km of tracks, since 2018 we laid more than 1 billion square meters. m of asphalt coating. All this is an unprecedented scale of road construction in our country. It is especially valuable that the national project “Safe high -quality roads“, which has been successfully completed, not only reached high indicators, but also received maximum support of the population. From this year we have begun to implement the new national project “Infrastructure for life“, which will continue in the roads. There are serious tasks in the new national project, among them – to bring the share of the relevant regulations of federal roads in agglomerations and a supporting network up to 85%, regional roads – up to 60%. The frame of our country, ”said Marat Khusnullin, deputy chairman of the government.

In 2024, eight sections of the rounds were commissioned on the Federal Road Network of Rosavtodor, their total length was 367.7 km. Including a detour of five settlements at once (Isametovo, Verkhneyarkeevo, Layashty, Ishkarovo and Asyanovo) on the M-7 Volga highway in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The head of the Ministry of Transport Roman Starovoit emphasized that the past year has become a turning point for the country’s transport complex. “A number of fateful decisions were adopted. The most important complex programs have been approved, which largely determined the vector of development of domestic transport. The new national projects prepared on behalf of the President “Effective Transport System“ and “The Infrastructure for Life has already earned. This is the real program of our actions for the next six years,” said Roman Starovoit.