OREANDA-NEWS  The development of the Northern Sea Route and the North-South international transport corridor are priorities in the logistics sector for the next ten years, said Igor Levitin, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.

"We do not have enough access to the Northern Sea Route today. You know that we have 80 million tons (cargo flow – ed.) task, today it is 36. But I would say that the Northern Sea Route and the North-South are two priority tasks for the next 10 years," Levitin said at the Siberian Transport Forum.

The presidential aide noted that the shortage of capacity for the Eastern landfill will remain, and those new enterprises that plan to build in Siberia and the Far East should be very careful before starting such construction, because "a very serious flow of cargo" is now coming from Eastern Siberia and the Far East.

"The Eastern landfill will take its 180 million tons. We want 220, but every million tons plus 180 to 220 costs 30 billion rubles. "North-South" 1 million tons is worth 6 billion rubles. Sevmorput - about 20 billion rubles. Therefore, now we need to move on to mathematics, consider which landfill to choose, how much it costs and how we can export," he said.