On the margins of the KazanSummit-2022 Tatarstan President has taken part in a plenary session of the Caspian Club

On 19 May on the margins of the XIII International Economic Summit Russia – Islamic World: KazanSummit 2022Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a plenary session of the Caspian Club, which was organized under the chairmanship of Ramazan Abdulatipov and Aleksandr Zhilkin and is the platform for discussing projects of the North-South international transport corridor.

Speaking at the session, Ramazan Abdulatipov stressed the large potential of the corridor, saying: “This route with the length of 7 200 kilometers proves its advantage as it enables decreasing time and expenses on freight transportation compared to alternative routes. The North-South has a promising future for development of the whole Big Eurasia region”. 

In his turn Rustam Minnikhanov said that Russia is carrying out huge work in improvement of the transport infrastructure and gave an example of the full scale construction of the Moscow-Nizhniy Novgorod – Kazan high speed highway which is the part of the Europe-West China transport route. 

He added that due to the necessity to look for alternative routes of freight shipping and strengthening trade and economic relations with Asian, Arabic and African countries the new transport corridor will be in great demand.

“As the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin is coming to our republic to take part in the celebrations of  the 1100th anniversary of adopting Islam by the Volga Bulgaria, we will try to inform him about the results of today’s discussion. I think this project gains more and more supporters”, Minnikhanov concluded.