Prices move in Crimea until 2018 will be regulated by the state
The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Law, according to which the state until 2018 will adjust the price for the carriage of passengers, baggage, vehicles and trains on ships between the ports of the Crimea and the Krasnodar region, informs a press-service of the Kremlin on the first day of the week.
Crimea became a Russian region after the referendum in March 2014. From Russia, the Peninsula is separated by the Strait of Kerch, and get to Crimea by land route only through Ukraine. The bridge across the Kerch Strait with a length of about 19 kilometers must be built before 2018. As long as in the form of a main traffic artery connecting the Crimea with the Krasnodar territory, the work of the Kerch Ferry crossing.
The law regulates the relations connected with the state regulation of prices (tariffs) for services on transportation of passengers, Luggage, vehicles, railway rolling stock between the sea ports of the Crimea and Sevastopol and seaports of Krasnodar region, and associated with such additional transportation services at government controlled prices. The prices regulation will implement the FTS of Russia through the establishment of prices, as well as their maximum level.
"Rendering of services in transportations is carried out in Accordance with rules approved by the Federal Executive power body exercising the functions of elaborating state policy and normative legal regulation in transport sphere," according To the help document.
The ferry across the Kerch Strait (the ferry port Krym - port Kavkaz) is a major traffic artery connecting the Crimea with mainland Russia. It is used to transport both freight and passenger cars. By the summer of this year, the crossing needs to carry up to 10 thousand and 50 thousand people.