North Korean and Russian representatives signed a new protocol on cross-border rail, road, and sea transport during meetings in Pyongyang this week, the Facebook page of the Russian embassy reported late Thursday.

It added that the protocol “sets out the main activities” in those areas of transport, while additional reporting from Russia’s state news agency said the two discussed starting container shipments from South Korea to Russia through North Korean territory.

Traveling to Pyongyang was Russia’s Deputy Minister of Transport Vladimir Tokarev, to attend the “9th meeting of the Subcommittee on transport” under the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) for Cooperation in