Russia is actively discussing the need to integrate the Northern Sea Route (NSR) into the international transport corridor "North-South", TASS reports.

According to experts, such integration will significantly increase cargo traffic and improve logistics in the Arctic region. The executive director of the Murmansk Region Polar Explorers Association, Alexei Fadeyev, emphasizes that the inclusion of the Northern Sea Route in this corridor will create new opportunities for the supply of natural resources extracted in the Arctic to other countries. It will also allow the development of meridional transport corridors that will ensure more efficient export of mineral resources from the Arctic regions.

Currently, the Northern Sea Route is already actively used in such locations as Murmansk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but for further growth it is necessary to build railway approaches that will connect these regions with the NSR route.

The Northern Sea Route is the main sea communication in the Russian Arctic. It runs along the northern coast of Russia through the seas of the Arctic Ocean and connects the European and Far Eastern ports of Russia, as well as the mouths of navigable Siberian rivers into a single transport system.

The intergovernmental agreement on the creation of the North-South corridor, which is 7,200 km long, was signed by Russia, India and Iran in 2000. The western land branch of the corridor passes through the territory of Azerbaijan. The eastern one - through the territory of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The water route passes through the Caspian Sea.

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