On April 3, 2025, the industry forum “Port Infrastructure: Construction, Modernization, Operation” was held in Moscow. During the event, Irina Anatolyevna Porechina, Head of the Railway Transport Development Center at IEDT, delivered a presentation titled “Development of JSC RZD’s Railway Infrastructure Approaches to Seaports.”

In her speech, Irina Anatolyevna outlined the key directions for developing railway infrastructure leading to major seaports of the Russian Federation, highlighting priority projects aimed at ensuring the stability of export and import flows. She presented current freight volume figures directed to the ports and identified infrastructure segments in need of modernization. Special emphasis was placed on the implementation of activities under the federal project “Development of the Backbone Railway Network” and on plans to increase throughput capacity along routes serving the Northwestern, Azov–Black Sea, and Far Eastern directions.