OREANDA-NEWS. June 7, 2011. The construction of a large cargo airport, accompanied by the port of Ust’-Luga at the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and equipped with essential road and train ways, will create a unique transport center in the North-West of Russia.

These plans were announced by the transport specialist of the State Duma Transport Committee Mr. Vadim Oleynikov. He made a report at the plenary session of the specialized field conference "InterAeroCom 2011” , which began its work in St. Petersburg. Over a hundred airlines, construction and engineering enterprises and scientific centers discuss the perspectives of regional airlines development, revival of the national aviation and local airlines.

The profitable location of the new cargo airport, possessing developed infrastructure and the runway of 3760 meters, will enable many transport companies to create more efficient logistic scheme of cargo transportation within Russia, Scandinavia and West Europe.

The problems of small aviation and regional airlines were also discussed at the round-table meetings and seminars. Unfortunately, the number of Russian airports has declined from 1700 to 325 within last 20 years. The new Federal Program of the Russian Transport System Development for the period of 2010-2015 has been recently launched to change the current situation. In 2010 the construction works were performed at 72 transport objects. It’s planned to reconstruct 108 objects by 2015; 517 airports will be reconstructed by 2030.