BEIJING, July 21 (RIA Novosti, Aleksei Efimov) - Russia intends to ask China to help construct Russian highways, Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin said Thursday.
"We'd like to invite our Chinese partners to take part in the construction of Russian highways, including the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway," Levitin said.
The minister said the delegation also wants China to take part in the construction of seaports in northern Russia.
According to Levitin, the new ports in the north will help change the course of North American container deliveries to China. Currently, the United States delivers some 18 million containers to China annually. With the help of Russian ports, the transit route via Russia from the United States to China will be able to handle some four million containers annually, he said.
