Russia focused on a solution through Turkey to open up the transportation routes blocked in foreign trade. Russian Federation First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov said that a new sea line will be opened for freight transport between the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast and Istanbul soon.
Belousov said, “New sea lines are being developed for the transportation of goods to overcome the logistics problems. The first regular sea ferry line in the Black Sea was established between Samsun (Turkey) and the Russian port of Kavkaz. Now we will move to a new stage. Soon, the Istanbul – Novorossiysk line is planned to be put into service.”
The Russian official also emphasized that in addition to this, an additional ship line from China to Vladivostok is being worked on.
Belousov stated that new solutions were also produced by the Baltic Sea and said, “An additional third ferry has been put into service on the Ust Luga-Baltiysk line. The fourth ferry is scheduled to be put into service on April 19.”
Accusing “Russia’s geopolitical enemies of trying to isolate the country from the world economy as much as possible and severing its economic ties with the world”, Beleusov said, “Thus, he is trying to initiate the processes of collapse and disintegration of the Russian economic system. Blockade initiatives continue in four directions: financial, trade, transport, and humanitarian. Of course, they can’t achieve such a blockade completely. It is not possible to isolate Russia, the world’s sixth-largest economy, from the global economic system. “What has happened in the past month and a half clearly shows this.”
