April 27, 2007 (LPAC) - The Russian state radio (RUVR) reported on the Megaprojects conference today, saying that conference participants "issued an appeal to the leaders of Russia, the United States, Canada, China and the EU countries to sign an inter-state agreement on the project's materialization." The Report added: "The transcontinental corridor can become an important chain in the system of international cargo flows. It can take responsibility for a part of cargo turnover of China, Japan, Russia, the United States and some other countries. "Prof. Igor Faminsky of the Moscow Higher Economics School is quoted, as saying: "The new transport corridor will promote economic development of Russian regions. In addition, if the transport corridor under the Bering Strait reaches Alaska it will allow an expansion of ties between Russia and the United States and Canada. We shall be able to increase cargo deliveries faster than the sea traffic which is currently used." "The World Link project," Faminsky said, "can be the key chain in the creation of a global transport system which will unite in one railway network all continents and major transport flows." The "world link" also appeared in a short news item from Moscow on ****Auto Channel, which advertised a future to its readers in which car drivers will be able to travel through from the southern tip of Ibero-America to Scotland, without ever being forced to take a boat ride.