Outstanding quotes from SPIEF 2021: Forum participants on transport

In their research, PwC experts studied the impact of COVID-19 on business activity, including in the transport and logistics sector.

Is Russia’s logistics system ready for more eastbound traffic? Russian industry needs to quickly decide how to compensate for the loss of several major markets for its products. One of the most promising destinations is the Asia — Pacific region, but logistics are a bottleneck for this pivot to the East. There is not enough shipping capacity, and the problem can only be solved with massive investments.

The beginning of June has traditionally been when the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has taken place. We thought this would be a good time to look back at some of the stand out talks from previous years. One of them was by Georgy Grechko, Russian pilot, cosmonaut, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, who spoke in 2011 at the session «50 Years of Space Flight: Prospects for Manned Programmes». What did this legendary cosmonaut speak about?

A research study by Henley & Partners, that specializes in the study of global issues of citizenship and the cross-country movement of people, analyzes the impact of the pandemic on long-term trends in global population mobility.