The European Union, China and the United States play the largest role in international trade, in terms of supplying products and as markets, and their trade relations largely determine the configuration of cargo flows in the international transport system.

In 2022, the Russian transport administration faces unprecedented logistics challenges: massive trade restructuring prompted by restrictive sanctions has necessitated urgent operational decisions to combine different routes through friendly and neutral countries. The biggest changes are expected in cargo turnover with Russia’s largest trading partners — the European Union and China