News – Government of Russia

Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev held a selector meeting dedicated to the celebration of the day of the employees of the sea and river fleet.

The event was attended by the Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit, representatives of Rosmorrechflot, regional authorities, higher educational institutions of water transport, as well as heads of administrations of the basins of internal waterways and seaports.

Opening the meeting, Vitaly Savelyev read out the congratulations of Russian President Vladimir Putin and turned to those present: “I have a great respect to you and the work that you do daily. We have high goals. I am sure that you will successfully achieve them and implement all large -scale tasks. I wish you success, good luck and prosperity. ”

The meeting participants summed up the current results of the work of the transport complex in the field of sea and river transportation, discussed the readiness to start loading and unloading in the Sevastopol Sea Port, the completion of dredging work in the water area of ​​the sea port of Makhachkala and the commissioning of floating berth No. 9 in Taganrog. In addition, it was a question of launching the Nizhny Beztyakh overload complex and the completion of the restoration of the Maritical Station building in Sochi.

Those present on the selector looked at how tourists arrived in the port of Chistopol after his reconstruction, heard a report on the completion of icebreaking navigation – 13 icebreakers took part in it, who held 1380 vessels, and also spent on the good path of graduates of the State Naval University named after Admiral F.F.Ushakov.

In 2024, the federal project “River Highways” started. Last year, about 34 thousand passengers were transported on 12 subsidized routes. This year, the geography of transportation will be expanded. It is planned that at the end of the year about 52 thousand passengers will be transported along 14 routes.

Since January of this year, the national project “Effective Transport System” has been implemented in Russia, which will become the foundation of the development of sea and river transport until 2030.

“Sea and river transport are an important part of the Unified transport complex of Russia, successfully solve important tasks in the interests of the state and citizens and make a significant contribution to the achievement of national development goals. In Russia, 62 seaports that provide for the transshipment of goods and goods for export. Our country occupies a unique place in the world in water resources – the length of the internal waterways is more than 102 thousand km. There is an active work on the development of domestic river transport, large infrastructure projects are being implemented, such as the construction of the Gorodetsky hydroelectric power engine on the Volga River, the Bagaevsky hydroelectric complex on the Don River, ”said Vitaly Savelyev.