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Russia Accelerates Unmanned Cargo Transport with St. Petersburg-Kazan Corridor

President of Russia Vladimir Putin gave a start to the movement of unmanned cargo transport along the M-12 route.

In the course of the ceremony of opening a number of objects of the transport industry, the head of state said: "I resolve, with God!"

The head of state noted that a single corridor of unmanned cargo transportation will connect St. Petersburg and Kazan, RIA Novosti reports.

In the perspective of the geography of the application of unmanned transport, its geography will expand to other major federal routes.

Putin also emphasized the presence of healthy competition in the field of unmanned transport in Russia.

"Very good that we have three companies engaged in this direction - Yandex, Navio and KamAZ. There is healthy competition in this direction, it's very good," the Russian leader said.

He expressed confidence that the launch of new transport facilities will positively affect the development of the industry and the strengthening of the national economy.

"We have several large, significant events in the transport industry today. I am confident that they will positively affect its development, serve to strengthen the entire national economy," Putin noted.

The President also drew attention to the need to use the transport and logistics potential of the country.

"Russia has a huge logistics and transit potential. Given the fundamental changes in the world economy, we must use it as efficiently as possible to diversify global logistics flows, offer new, safer, more reliable and cost-effective routes," Putin summarized.

Recall, according to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, by 2028 the park of unmanned trucks will reach 992 cars, and by the end of 2030 - will exceed 4 thousand units of equipment.