The event featured speeches by Vitaly Potapov, First Deputy General Director of LOGOPER, and Anton Taranenko, General Director of Panda Express Line.
Participants discussed economic cooperation, investment collaboration, and potential joint projects in the transport sector, logistics, agriculture, energy, and mineral extraction.
The parties paid significant attention to increasing export-import cargo volumes, constructing new container vessels, improving transport and logistics routes and customs administration systems, as well as further expanding the practice of mutual settlements in national currencies.
Alexander Kakhidze, Head of the Group of Companies and Co-Chairman of the Russian part of the Business Council, reported the outcomes of the negotiations to Yuri Petrovich Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, and to Zhang Guoqing, Vice Premier of the State Council of China.
A.K. Kakhidze highlighted the importance of holding the Business Council in the context of the upcoming visit of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, to the People's Republic of China. He expressed confidence that the meeting would make a tremendous contribution to further strengthening Russian-Chinese business cooperation.
The dialogue proved constructive and focused on the implementation of specific projects. The event confirmed that the cooperation potential between the two countries is far from exhausted.
Among the initiatives considered during the Business Council, the following should be noted:
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Launch of regular shuttle services via the Grodikovo–Suifenhe and Kamyshovaya–Hunchun railway border crossings, connecting with the largest dry port in the Russian Federation — the Artyom Transport and Logistics Centre (TLC Artyom);
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Construction of container vessels at Chinese shipyards with financing from Russian and Chinese development financial institutions;
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Further development of direct air links between Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and major cities of the People's Republic of China, involving Chinese carriers.
All participants reaffirmed their commitment to long-term partnership, and negotiations will continue in the very near future.
