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Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation	Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation	Administration of St.Petersburg
	Federal agency of railway transport

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Development of transport infrastructure of Russia and strengthening of its position on the international level are the priority tasks which the Ministry of Transport of Russia carries out every day. A special task is before the members of the transport sector’s community — to continue developing of our country as a great transport power in today economic conditions.

The “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and transit potential” provides an uncommon opportunity for all parties concerned to gather and discuss the most burning issues of the transport sector in an interactive way. It is an open dialogue of the authority and business that will allow to elaborate the further development strategy of the transport sphere with due regard for today reality. On this forthcoming conference issues of complex development of our country’s transport and logistics sector should be discussed, paying special attention to innovative policies in the transport sphere.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia supports the II. International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Trasit Potential”. The following are to take part in the conference work:

• Viktor Alexandrovich Olersky, the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation;
• Nikolay Sergeevich Lyamov, the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation;
• Georgiy Vladimirovich Petrushenko, the Deputy Director of the Development Programs’ Department of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation;
• Alexander Alexandrovich Davydenko, the Chief of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport of Russia.

ANDREY NIKOLAEVICH KLEPACH

DEPUTY MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russia’s status of the sea power is defined both historically and geographically. Marine policy of our country becomes not only one of the significant factors of Russia’s sustained development, but also a factor of evidence of Russia’s role of a great world power.

The II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit potential”, drawing a wide range of executives and key specialists, affords the opportunity of examining major transport nodal points, transport corridors and other transport sector’s issues in the light of the world economic crisis; it supposes a concerned discussion of further perspectives of new infrastructural projects.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia supports the conference organized by the “United Russia” political party and expresses its willingness to take part in it.

MIKHALCHUK ILYA FILIPPOVICH

THE GOVERNOR OF THE ARKHANGELSK REGION

An effective transport infrastructure is one of the most important and strategic tasks of the Russian state, also it’s guarantee of the country territorial integrity, consolidation of the Russian Federation regions and remote territories complex development.

International transport corridors development requires active actions in present-day conditions. Russia is a connecting link among Europe and Asia potentially. Considering economic crisis happening s we have to use this resource completely.

The Northern Sea Route is the most important transit corridor ensuring solution of the main problem which implies the development of the territories along the whole length of The Northern Sea Route activating the transit potential of the country. This unique transcontinental route concerns to the main national interests of Russia in the Arctic.

I thank you very much for the opportunity to take part at the Second International Conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential”. I’m ready to make a report "The Northern Sea Route is a National transport sea artery of Russia" and to discuss actual problems in open dialogue.

KOPIN ROMAN VALENTINOVICH

THE GOVERNOR OF CHUKOTKA AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT

I thank you very much for the invitation to take part at the Second International Conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential” intended for the transport infrastructure development in all regions of Russian Federation and confirm the fact of my participation in the occasion with a report «Port Pevek – the strategic transport object on the Northern Sea Route».

I hope that this event will help to solve the most sharp problems of transport area and speed up the sector modernization.

MAKAROVA GALINA MARATOVNA

THE RESIDENT REPRESANTATIVE OF THE SAKHA REPUBLIC (YAKUTIJA) IN ST. PETERSBURG

In the name of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) we thank you for invitation to take part at the Second International Conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential” which has become an important event in social and politic life of Russia. For our northern republic development of the transport and logistic infrastructure plays an important role especially taking into account a realization of the important and strategic projects on the Sakha Republic (Yakutiya) territory. That’s why a participation at the conference is extremely interesting for us.

By order of the Sakha Republic (Yakutiya) government the Resident representative of the Sakha Republic (Yakutiya) in St. Petersburg G.M. Makarova will take part at the conference and make a report «China—Russia» transport corridor (Skovorodino-Tiksi)».

KUSHNARENKO STANISLAV GRIGORYEVICH

THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF THE YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS AREA

The members of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area government supports the Second International Conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential” and thanks for the invitation to take part at the event.

First of all the northern part of Russia is the most wealthy source of raw materials and minerals in the country, also it’s a reserve of the country development at XXI century taking into account land and Arctic seas underground resources. The northern regions are possessed of mineral resources, oil and gas unique potential. No doubt that raw materials exploitation and high-technology sectors development will act role as a one of the motive forces of social and economic development of Russia and northern regions in the sequel, also it’ll intensify Russian economic and geopolitical positions in the world.

The Northern Sea Route transport potential realization must become the most important tool of Arctic common economic space hardening and it will boost the economy and life support system of northern territories. Complex development of the Northern Sea Route connecting northern seas and the biggest Siberian rivers in common transport system will provide a lowering of transport component at the cost of production made in Arctic and as effect it’ll improve the competitiveness of production made in Arctic at domestic market and world market.

I think that the Second International Conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential” is well-timed. The decisions taken at event will provide more rapid transport and logistic development at northern regions of Russian Federation.

S.G.Kushnarenko, the deputy governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, will take part at the conference.

NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH DUDOV

GOVERNOR OF MAGADAN OBLAST

I express my gratitude and thankfulness for your invitation to take part in the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” in St. Petersburg on September 17—18.

A special position of our region implies a specific usage of transport resources. Aside from the inside transport communication, authorities of Magadan Oblast carry out the active development of the fishery’s export and other key sectors of the region’s economy. This is the reason issues of complex development of the transport sector and development of Magadan Oblast as a base of West-Eastern Russia are of a special significance to the oblast’s management and business structures.

PLC “Magadan Sea Trade Port” (A. A. Zinchenko), and transport and logistics companies LLC “Magadantransagenstvo” (L. F. Shvets), LLC “Transfer-Magadan” have confirmed their participation in the II International conference.

KONSTANTIN RUDOLFOVICH MALTSEV

MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND ENERGY OF THE KOMI REPUPLIC

Herein I thank you for the invitation of representatives of the Komi Republic on the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” and confirm my participation as a speaker on the subject “Perspectives of building the new railroad mainline ‘Belkomur’”.

The II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” is a significant and timely event meant to provide the complex development of the transport infrastructure in the regions of the Russian Federation.

The government of our country is seriously concerned with the today transport infrastructure’s situation. Thus, the President of Russia Vdadimir Putin noticed in his Message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on April 26, 2007: “Bad condition of our roads and often their even absence is a big brake on the development”.

Modernization of the Russian economy directly depends on the formation of the united national transport and logistics system in our country. This process is impossible without carrying out the major interregional infrastructural projects, one of which is the building of the railroad mainline “Belkomur”.

The “Belkomur” project is a part of the “Complex program of industrial and infrastructural development of the Komi Republic, Perm Krai and Arkhangelsk Oblast”. The project is meant to develop the railroad network of the European North of Russia, carry out the liquidation of the infrastructural dead-ends, to provide building a new international transit route in the Eurasian transport corridor, linking the regions of the country with a shorter route, decreasing the cost of rail traffic and increasing the export’s competitiveness of the neighbor regions’ enterprises.

The discussion of this project in the course of the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” will doubtless make a major contribution to the development of the Russian transport system and will contribute to further integration of Russia into the world economy.

VYACHESLAV FYODOROVICH NOVITSKIY

FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF KHANTY-MANSI AUTONOMOUS OKRUG — YUGRA

The Government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra supports the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” and thanks you for the invitation to participate in the conference’s work.

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra is the main oil and gas bearing region in Russia and one of the major oil-producing region of the world. The okrug is the donor subject of the Russian Federation and leads in many key economic indices.

Development of Yugra transport complex, consisting of air, rail, motor transport and sea transport, is unconditionally important for the realization of the enormous transit potential of Russia.

Issues to be discussed on the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” are timely and urgent; their solution will ensure the establishing the national transport system in Russia which corresponds with demands of today, and will get the development of the country’s economy on a qualitatively new level.

GOVERNMENT OF ARKHANGELSK OBLAST

The Government of Arkhangelsk Oblast supports the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” and thanks you for the given opportunity to participate in it.

The matter of “Perspectives of the North Sea Route Development” proposed for discussion on the conference is topical for workers of the transport complex of Arkhangelsk Oblast who traditionally work on the North Sea Route.

The development of the north ports’ infrastructure will favour the development of the North Sea Route as a strategic transport corridor of Russia. That is the reason in the course of the conference the Government of Arkhangelsk Oblast will carry out the report on the building project of the new deep sea port in Arkhangelsk and the rail road “Belkomur”. Complex development of these projects will contribute to the further accumulation of the transit potential of the Russian Federation.

YURY VYACHESLAVOVICH MOLCHANOV

VICE-GOVERNOR OF THE CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

The Government of the city of St. Petersburg thanks you for the invitation to participate in the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” and supports this initiative.

The conference will contribute to the complex development of the transport and logistics infrastructure of Russian regions, the development of lands previously not in use and their involvement into the country’s economy, the infrastructural limit’s liquidation and the increasing of the export’s competitiveness of Russian enterprises.

Essential condition of accumulating the transport and transit potential of Russia is the development of the transport service export. St. Petersburg is a major part of the Russian and world transport system. Thanks to its favourable geographic position the city carries out about 20 % of all Russian foreign-trade and transit cargo traffic.

The Chairman of the Transport and Transit Policy’s Committee of the Government of the City of St. Petersburg N. A. Asaul will be the conference’s representative of the executive powers of the city of St. Petersburg.

Information on the conference has been referred to the members of the Transport and Sea Councils by the Government of the city of St. Petersburg.

ALEXANDER FYODOROVICH YADOV

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION OF KRASNOYARSK KRAI

Taking into account the significance of the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” on issues of establishing the united system of ports, and transport and logistics infrastructure, and on the complex development of the international transport corridors in new economic conditions, I would like to support the initiative of carrying out the conference and thank you for the invitation to participate in it.

I also inform you that invitations to take part in the conference’s work were referred to the major transport, logistics and stevedore companies, motor transport enterprises and rail cargo carriers, Federal State Institution “Administration of the Murmansk Sea Port” — Dudinka port, the Closed Joint-stock Company “Khatang Sea Trade Port” and Open Joint-stock Company “Norilskiy Nikel”.

YURY ARKADYEVICH UTKIN

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF PERM KRAI

As the need in transport service increases the existing infrastructure is already not unable to provide the economic need. The lack of railroad mainlines leads to the lack of convenient communications between raw materials’ and industrial regions of the country, or to the formation of dead-end industrial nodal points. It is very important for the transport infrastructure development to integrate the inside transport networks into the international ones, which allows to increase the export potential. It is necessary to offer our both Russian and foreign potential partners newer and shorter cargo transit routes.

I suppose it be timely and necessary to discuss the issues of establishing the united system of ports, and transport and logistics infrastructure in the regions of Russian Federation, and the complex development of the international transport corridors as well. In the light of the new economic conditions searching for solutions in the realization of strategic infrastructural projects is indispensable.

Thank you for the invitation to participate in the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential”.

Herein I inform you that I will be present in person and am ready to carry out the report on the matter “Economic growth of Perm Krai at the expense of building a modern and cutting-edge transport infrastructure”.

IGOR YURYEVICH GARMASH

DEPUTY GOVERNOR AND CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ORYOL OBLAST — CHIEF OF BODIES OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF ORYOL OBLAST

The Government of Oryol Oblast greets the the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential”.

Solving the conference’s tasks of the elaboration of measures of the transport and logistics infrastructure development in the regions of Russia, promotion and incentives of innovations in spheres of transport and logistics is especially timely and necessary in the light of the complicated economic situation in the country.

The complex development of the transport and logistics system will ensure establishing favourable conditions for drawing Russian and foreign investments to the economy in the regions of the Russian Federation, will contribute to the development of the interregional, intersectoral and international relations; which will in turn have a positive influence on the economic situation both generally in the country and particularly in its regions.

Solving the issues to be discussed on the “Transport and Transit Potential” conference will carry out the favourable environment for the gross regional product growth, creating new working places, increasing of the production volume, marketing of competitive goods, work and service, and will ensure the effective transit potential in the regions.

GENNADIY YEGOROVICH YEMELYANOV

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND ROAD SECTOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN

The key factor providing the balanced development of the Russian economy is today the establishment of the modern transport and logistics system in the country. This process is impossible without the complex development of the transport infrastructure of the Russian Federation.

Taking into account the significance for Russia, and particularly for the Republic of Tatarstan, of the II International conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential” tasks, we would like to inform you that the Ministry of Transport and Road Sector comprehensively supports this conference and is ready to carry out a report.

BAZEGSKY DMITRY VASILIEVICH

ACTING MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA

Thank you for amiable invitation to take part in the II International conference “St.Petersburg – the Sea capital of Russia. Transport and transit potential”, which will take place on September 22-23, 2009 in St.Petersburg.

This conference is timely and urgent. Its results will essentially influence on fruitful development of economic of the Russian Federation in general and Republic of Karelia particularly.

Today one of the first-rate infrastructural projects, that implement on the region territory, is building of new deep-water port in Belomorsk.

In the network of the project it is planned to deepen the sea approach channel to 12.5 m, to set up operational area of water (dredging to 12.5 m in area of water of coal and universal complex and to 5.5 m in area of water of harbor vessels base), to create territory (to mark +3.2 m), to build docks, to construct and equip objects of navigational support and ships motion control system and check-point at the frontier of the Russian Federation. In the future Belomorsk deep-water port project will become one of the ensure factor of the most active operation of Northern Sea route.

We inform you that from Republic of Karelia in the conference “Transport and transit potential” director general of JSC “Port of Belomorsk” Kyachin A.V. will take part.

SAVIN ALEXEY GEORGIEVICH

DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF THE MURMANSK REGION

On behalf of the Governor of the Murmansk region D.V.Dmitrienko we thank you for the invitation to take part in the II International conference “St.-Petersburg – the sea capital of RUSSIA. Transport and transit potential”.

The problems exposed for discussion within the limits of this event, are important and actual not only for the Murmansk region, but also for many regions of our country, and their development will promote complex development of transport infrastructure of the Russian Federation.

The government of the Murmansk region supports carrying of the conference “St.-Petersburg – sea capital of RUSSIA. Transport and transit potential”.

Michael Aleksandrovich Kruchinin, the acting minister of transport and communication of the Murmansk region will take part at the conference and make a report about prospects of the Murmansk transport hub development.

Besides, invitations to take part in this event are directed to large transport-logistical and stevedore companies of the Murmansk region, including Open Society “Murmansk sea shipping company” and Open Society “Murmansk sea trading port”.

KHUDZAROV ELMAN ASLANOVICH

DIRECTOR GENERAL, OJSC INTER-REGIONAL COMPANY “BELKOMUR”

Thank you for high assessment and active participation in advancement of building of main line “Belkomur” project realization. Support from the Party “United Russia” in advancement of the project is very important and necessary.

We are extremely interested in inclusion of the project to the list of events, provided with participation of the Party “United Russia” in the network of all-Russian programmes.

In the network of II International conference “St.Petersburg – the Sea capital of Russia. Transport and transit potential” project “Belkomur” will be presented by minister of industry and energy of Komi Republic K.R. Malcev.

EVGENY VIKTOROVICH DANILYUK

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CHUKOTKA AUTONOMOUS OKRUG

The Government of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug thanks you for the invitation to take part in the conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of RUSSIA. Transport and Transit Potential” and supports the initiative of this event.

The Government of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug pays a lot of attention to the improvement of the region’s transport infrastructure. Transport development is one of the directions the most volume of investments is drawn to every year. Thus, realization of the effective road-building scheme’s plans will enable the more intense development of the region’s economy, will reduce the problem of the deliveries of goods to the Northern Territories and therefore will increase the standard of living in the region. Forming the base road net will ensure direct interregional transport communications.

The sea transport scheme of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug plays a significant role in the region’s economy development as well. There are five sea ports in the okrug: Pevek port in the East-Siberian Sea, and Providenya, Egvekinot, Anadyr and Beringovsky ports in the Bering Sea. Their main task is the processing of cargoes which are delivered in the west (from Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, St. Petersburg) and east directions (from Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vanino, Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and ports of Sakhalin). Cargo traffic resumption on the North Sea Route will give an impulse to the further development of the minerals' deposit in the region.

The conference “St. Petersburg — the Sea Capital of Russia. Transport and Transit Potential”, taking place in St. Petersburg on September 17—18, will undoubtedly allow to solve the most acute issues of establishing and developing the transport and logistics complex uniting all regions of the Russian Federation, and to elaborate proposals on drawing foreign transit cargoes into the Russian transport network.