Russia, China In Talks On Boosting Cargo Transit To Europe - Transport Ministry

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 08, 2018 | 06:07 PM

Russia and China have agreed to take steps to increase cargo transit traffic to Europe, the Russian Ministry of Transport said Thursday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th November, 2018) Russia and China have agreed to take steps to increase cargo transit traffic to Europe, the Russian Ministry of Transport said Thursday.

"The talks focused on options for increasing by several times the volume of container traffic from China to Europe through Russia.

An agreement on closer cooperation was reached," the Russian ministry said in a statement.

The arrangement was made by Russian and Chinese transport ministers on the sidelines of Wednesday's meeting in Beijing of Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.