Representatives of the StratMos NMC-project last week met with President of the NSR Partnership Arthur Chilingarov in Moscow to discuss cooperation. The meeting, which took place in the premises of the State Duma, resulted in an agreement on the establishment of a working group between the Northern Maritime Corridor and the NSR Partnership.
President of the NSR Arthur Chilingarov, also Vice Speaker in the State Duma and Presidential Aide on Arctic and Antarctic issues, in the meeting said that he is “very positive” to the initiative from the EU-financed project and confirmed that the NSR will contribute in the working group.
Harald Sørensen, Project Coordinator for the Northern Maritime Corridor and adviser in the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, says the two projects can be seen as two parts of one continuous sea corridor.
-The ports in the Barents region are ports that are common hubs for the two corridors. It is therefore important to pursue the developing of the corridors as one whole”, Sorensen says to BarentsObserver.
The Stratmos-NMC prosjektet is funded primarily by the EU. It is also seen as a possible contribution to the emerging EU Northern Dimension Partnership on Transport.
Photo: Artur Chilingarov and Stratmos-NMC leader Gunnar Odd Eiterjord
