Dep. PM sees Free Port of Vladivostok reaching design capacity in 2016
MOSCOW. Dec 29 (Interfax) - The Free Port of Vladivostok should reach design capacity in 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev, who is also the president's envoy to Russia's Far East Federal District, believes.
"As for when the port will reach design capacity, when there will be a sufficient number of residents - no more than a year. Within a year we need to build up the port, we simply have to," Trutnev said in an interview with TV channel Rossiya 24.
He said there should be results as early as by the second Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, which is scheduled for September.
"We're trying to work fast. We're proceeding from the assumption that, in conditions that are being called an economic crisis, we need to roll up our sleeves and work hard. Therefore, a period of two months [since the start of the project in October 2015] is a quite a lot. We need to achieve some results," Trutnev said.
"The project has just started. Residents have just appeared. The first projects are primarily related to port activities, in other words these are projects to build processing, warehouse facilities, refrigerators for fish, logistics terminals. Undoubtedly, all this will develop. We need to work out this regime," Trutnev said.
