The agreements signed during the 9th Eastern Economic Forum will attract at least RUB 4 tn of investment to the Far East and Arctic, Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, said at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with government members on the results of the EEF 2024. This was reported by TASS.

Trutnev noted that these agreements allowed increasing the planned goal of attracting investments to the Far East and Arctic up to 2030 to RUB 12 tn.

Trutnev also named the largest projects for which agreements on implementation were signed at the EEF. Among them are the construction of the Vorkuta Chemical Complex, the development of the Kun-Manye nickel-copper deposit in the Amur Region, the expansion of capacities at the Berezovsky iron ore deposit in the Trans-Baikal Territory, the construction of a cross-border railway transshipment complex Soyuz near the Lower Leninskoye – Tunjiang bridge crossing in the Jewish Autonomous Region, and a marine terminal for the transhipment of liquefied hydrocarbon gases in the Khabarovsk Territory.

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