the meeting discussed urgent measures to support the industry and prospects of its development. In the transport sector employs about 4.5 million people. Like other industries, it goes through a difficult phase caused by epidemics and forced restrictions. But in such difficult conditions, the company provides reliable communication regions and areas that our great country is a strategic goal, said Vladimir Putin.
the Head of state stressed that it is important to support people working in the field of transport, to ensure the overall stability of the transport complex and recalled the decision to allocate from Reserve Fund of the government more than 23 billion roubles, as operating aid to airlines.
In all modes of transport identified strategic enterprises to receive special policy support. But it’s a Federal list, and in each region there are companies that perform system tasks – mostly bus and river transport, commuter rail, listed Putin and asked governors to consider mechanisms to support them.
a Common problem for passenger transport – reduction of tourist traffic. International tourism virtually stopped, said the head of state, calling to focus the provisions for the development of domestic tourism, inter-regional traffic. The President also considers it necessary to return to the question of priority handling of domestic cargo in Russian seaports. Against the background of falling global demand has intensified the struggle for international markets, and to increase the competitiveness of Russian goods, exporters should work together with transport companies. “I hope that our carriers will offer effective logistics solutions that can support, stimulate exports,” said Putin.
He instructed you to preserve the investment in the transport sector. “From the coordinated work of transport, logistics companies will largely depend on rapid normalization of economic and business life,” said the President. Obviously, after the decline of the epidemic will require serious analysis of sanitary, prophylactic measures in all sectors, especially in transport. “I draw the attention of colleagues from Federal agencies. Here it is impossible to go too far, crushing business formal, redundant, and sometimes mindless requirements. It is important that they be proportionate to the risks and, most importantly, really served the protection of the health and safety of citizens. This should always be with us in the first plan,” Putin said.
Minister of transport noted the drop in the sphere of passenger transportation by all types of transport from 70 to 95 percent. Eugene Dietrich was asked to instruct the regions to prevent overly stringent measures that hinder normal�� transport, to coordinate with the transport Ministry and the interior Ministry decision to impose restrictions, and asked to resolve the issue of the equalization of tariffs for container transportations. Need a subsidy of 1 billion rubles. The key issue, the Minister called for the payment of lease payments: the cost of leasing the system-wide measures were not included. He said that the transport Ministry and the Federal service before the end of may approved additions to the rules of carriage of passengers for health security: “the mask, gloves, and a control input”. The Ministry of transport has been agreed upon with the Ministry of Finance the allocation of 10.1 billion rubles for assistance to airports at the end of July, and Dietrich asked the President to support it. It added that later support airlines and airports can take about 30 billion rubles. The head of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov assured that the transport accessibility of regions saved, and for the investment program it is planned to issue perpetual bonds.
All proposals will be carefully analyzed, assured the President and highlighted the systemic solutions. First: in the near future to expand the list of the most affected sectors – add inland water transport and commuter rail transportation. Second, it is important to strengthen infrastructure, upgrade Park – Putin instructed the Cabinet and the Central Bank in a short time to prepare the normative and regulatory base for perpetual bonds of Railways – that they were released this year. Third: it is faster to redirect traffic to domestic ports. It is difficult to say when and which international destinations are available for travel. So you need to boost the development of domestic tourism, to form attractive routes and open new destinations.
