“We invite all interested partners, including our Chinese friends, to actively use the opportunities of the Northern Sea Route to increase trade operations with Europe,” RIA Novosti quotes Putin as saying at the second UN global conference on sustainable transport.
Russia is actively building infrastructure facilities and improving port facilities for the development of the route, the president noted.
Earlier, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom prepared a project for regular transportation along the Northern Sea Route.