Between the Russian State Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom and DP World Company, the world leader in integrated digital logistics, on July 23, 2021, Russia’s St. A cooperation agreement was signed in St. Petersburg. The agreement was signed by Rosatom General Manager Alexey Lihachev and DP World Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem.
The agreement envisions Rosatom seeking to develop its logistics business, and DP World, a world leader in logistics activities, to combine their efforts to develop pilot container shipping between Northwest Europe and East Asia using Arctic support transport infrastructure. The Northern Sea Route
In his statement on the subject, ROSATOM General Manager Aleksey Likhachev said, “New opportunity doors that can help reduce the ecological footprint with advanced low-carbon energy solutions to be implemented with shorter routes and in the most appropriate time interval to establish a sustainable transportation infrastructure in the Arctic, to develop Eurasian transit transportation. opens,” he said.
Regarding the signed agreement, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman and CEO of DP World, said: “As the world’s leading provider of smart, end-to-end logistics supply chain, DP World is Russia’s key player in diversifying trade flows between Asia and Europe supports their efforts. The Northern Transit Corridor has the expectation of shorter transit times between East and West. DP World has already committed to invest $2 billion in the Russian Direct Investment Fund. We will continue to work with our partners in Russia to find solutions that will enable the sustainable development of the Northern Transit Corridor.”