Connecting the prospective undersea tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki to the Rail Baltic project is a precondition for the tunnel's development, reads the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by transport ministers of both Estonia and Finland on Monday. Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas (Center) and Finland's Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the two countries in the transport sector on Monday. The purpose of the MoU is cooperation in the transport sector and exchange of information between the countries in order to promote large-scale transport projects, such as the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel, Rail Baltica, Trans-European Transport Networks, and North Sea–Baltic Sea core network corridor. The MoU provides an improved environment for applying EU funding for the projects, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure announced.