“You know that the sanctions that were imposed today on the Russian Federation practically broke all the logistics in our country, and we are forced to look for new logistics corridors together,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
The minister noted that the North-South transport corridor is of paramount importance in this matter.
“The Caspian direction is important in this corridor, where three ports participate - Olya, Astrakhan and Makhachkala,” Savelyev said.
He also stressed that we are talking not only about ports, but also bridges, approaches to ports.
Earlier, economist Elena Tyurina, in an interview with FBA Economics Today, commented on measures to support small and medium-sized businesses in Russia against the backdrop of anti-Russian sanctions.