The “Transport Infrastructure of Russia” IV Strategic Forum took place in Moscow on September 19-20, 2018.

The forum involved representatives of federal and regional bodies of power, management of banks, investment funds, infrastructural companies, and major Russian and foreign experts. FSUE “Rosmorport” was represented by Deputy General Director for Project Management Boris Tashimov and chief of the Investment and Strategic Development Directorate Andrei Boldorev.

The forum focused on the transit potential development and Russia’s integration into international transport corridors, and the effective use of the port infrastructure. The participants in the forum discussed ways to select transport projects and the decisions taken to attract investors’ attention.

On the first day of the forum the discussions touched upon issues to realize the comprehensive approach toward developing the port infrastructure “Models to Attract Private Investors in Developing the Port Infrastructure in Russia”.

The participants in the meeting discussed the specifics for developing seaports and river ports of the country to apply mechanism of public private partnership, as well as the main infrastructure modernization and expansion comprehensive plan to the year 2024. They focused on the capacity of the transport infrastructure adjacent to the country’s seaports and considered the existing regulatory restrictions of the port infrastructure development.

During the discussions, representatives of FSUE “Rosmorport” noted that under conditions of the limited federal budget, the concession as one of the forms of public private partnership would become the more effective way to develop the port infrastructure. A decision on the use of any mechanism of public private partnership should be taken on the results of financial modeling of a concrete project.

At present, practically in all sea basins of the country private investors jointly with FSUE “Rosmorport” implement investment projects aimed at advanced development of the seaport infrastructure. Over the 15 years of the activities FSUE “Rosmorport” has attracted private investments in the amount of five billion Rubles to implement projects. In the offing as in 2024 the enterprise is planning to attract at least 22 billion Rubles of private investments to implement infrastructural projects that will allow for increasing Russian ports’ capacity by more than 200 million tons.