The Ministry of Transport a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for drafting and implementing national policy and legal regulation for:
• civil aviation (excluding the regulation of air space and the provision of air-navigation in Russian Federation air space)
• sea transport, including sea trade, specialised and fishing ports (excluding fishing-cooperative ports)
• inland waterway, railway, road, municipal electric (including metro systems) and industrial transport, the highway infrastructure, geodesic and mapping projects.