MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The overall amount of material resources to be delivered to military units, deployed in the Extreme North, will total of 300,000 tons.
"Maritime deliveries of material and food supplies to military units, deployed in the Extreme North, are to start on May 30 in compliance with the timeframe adopted. The overall amount of cargo equals over 300,000 tonnes," Army General Vladimir Isakov, Chief of the Armed Forces Logistics Support Directorate, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
He noted that at the present time logistics services were accumulating all types of material resources (fuel, food supplies, clothes, medicines, and construction materials) to be sent to the North.
"Logistic services of the Northern and the Pacific Fleets, as well as those of the Siberian and the Leningrad Military Districts have already completed chartering ships to deliver cargo to the Extreme North," the general said.
He also noted that all deliveries to the Extreme North were centralized within the framework of the interdepartmental Unified Logistics Support System of the Armed Forces and other law- enforcement agencies.
"The interdepartmental system has been sending such cargo to military units, deployed in the Extreme North, for three years now. First and foremost, we deliver cargo to border guard outposts on duty," Isakov said.