Transport ministers of Russia and Ukraine Igor Levitin and Kostiantyn Yefymenko on Tuesday in Russia (Briansk) have signed a plan of action to implement the concept of integrating the transport systems of Russia and Ukraine for 2010-2013.

Levitin noted at a press conference that the plan assumes greater collaboration in the protection of water, railway, highway and air transport, in attracting investment in the transport sector and protecting investors, in reducing administrative barriers for carriers.

In his side Yefymenko added that the two ministries have intensions to sign four agreements in the second and third quarters of the year on safe seafaring in the Azov and Black Seas and in the Kerch Strait, on the procedure and terms of using internal waterways and also on cooperation in maritime and air search and protection.

Among the most important investment projects that these two neighbor countries intend to carry out in the transport sphere Yefymenko said the building of the Moscow-Vienna railway across Ukraine. He emphasized that this is not a political but an economic project for Ukraine because its introduction will increase transit across Ukraine from 65 million to 70 million tones now to 88 million to 93 million tones in the future.