The IV Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) “Far East: Expanding the Range of Possibilities” was held in Vladivostok September 11-13, 2018.

The international event was attended by over 6.000 delegates from 60 countries: leaders of states and governments of the Asia-Pacific Region, heads of major international companies of Russia and other countries. The business program of the EEF involved FSUE “Rosmorport” General Director Andrei Lavrishchev, Deputy General Director Oksana Gubina and director of the FSUE
“Rosmorport” Far Eastern Basin Branch Viktor Vanyukov.

The plenary session “Far East: Expanding the Range of Possibilities” was the key event of the forum and it was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping, Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulgi, Japanese Prime-Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon.

Totally, over 100 business events, including panel sessions, business breakfasts and round-table meetings, television debates, devoted to key regional and international issues took place during the EEF.

The development of digital technologies and standards on transport was raised at a strategic session “Digital Transport – Future of Big Eurasia”. Russian Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh was moderator of the session.

Within the framework of the business program the sectoral community focused in detail on projects to develop sea transport and the port infrastructure in the Far East. On the first day of the forum Pacific Logistic and FSUE “Rosmorport” signed an agreement on the implementation of a new investment project in Golden Horn Bay.

FSUE “Rosmorport” carries out the activities in 22 Russian seaports of the region. Under the comprehensive draft plan for modernizing and expanding the main infrastructure, the enterprise is planning to implement 14 projects to develop seaports in the Far Eastern Basin till the year 2024. Following the results on the completion of projects capacity gains amounted to over 130 million tons the most of which will account on the development of handling coal (about 100 million tons). In addition to, the enterprise is planning to implement projects on the development of container capacity and capacity for handling liquefied hydrocarbon gas, grain and alumina.

The particularities in the work and the development of the region’s seaports are conditioned by their remoteness from Russian central areas. The seaports of Primorye are final points of the East-West international transport corridor. At the same time, these seaports are located near fast-growing countries of the Asia-Pacific Region.