Overview
- At a Kremlin meeting with delegates of the SCO Council of Heads of Government, Vladimir Putin called for continued joint work on a branched, competitive system of logistics routes across the SCO space and wider Eurasia.
- He said Russia is committing significant funding to modernize transport infrastructure, pointing to the country’s location at the crossroads of key trans‑Eurasian corridors.
- Transit volumes through Russia are rising across road, rail and multimodal traffic, with planning focused on loading the North–South corridor and the Northern Sea Route.
- Russian proposals are moving into implementation to create an SCO database of industrial investment projects to expand cooperation, bolster import substitution and deploy digital technologies including artificial intelligence.
- Putin said the SCO can deepen sectoral cooperation and foster alignment of regional integration efforts under the EAEU and China’s Belt and Road within Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership framework.