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22.11.2024
New Route for Pork from Russia to China
RZD Logistics has launched an additional block train to deliver reefer containers laden with Russian produced pork to China via Kazakhstan. Cargo is carried from the railway station of Selyatino...
22.11.2024
Tuapse Bulker Terminal Sets Daily Loading Record
Tuapse Bulker Terminal has set a record loading 20,329 tons on board a ship during 24 hours, the best daily performance so far, the terminal said in a statement. The...
21.11.2024
Chief of Vyborg Customs Appointed
Colonel Georgy Ivanov has been appointed Chief of the Vyborg Customs by Order No 3580-KS of the Federal Customs Service of November 19, 2024, the press office of the Northwest...
21.11.2024
OTEKO Loads 100,000,000th Ton of Coal at Taman
OTEKO’s bulk cargo terminal in the port of Taman has 100 million tons of coal since the start of operations, the company said in a statement. This volume is enough...
21.11.2024
Azov and Caspian Freight Market, Week 47, 2023
On week 47, freight rates in the Azov and Black Sea region are maintained at the level of last week. Thus, a shipment of 3,000 tons of deadweight cargo from...
20.11.2024
Russian Railways’ Container Traffic Up 6.8% YoY in January-October 2024
Russian Railways have reported a 6.8% year-on-year increase in rail container traffic in January-October 2024. All in all, 6.5 mn TEU was carried during the first ten months of the...
19.11.2024
Arctic Basin Ports’ Throughput in September 2024
The sea ports in the Russian Arctic handled 6.8 mn tons of cargo in September 2024, down 13.2% year-on-year. The article is based on SeaNews PORTSTAT online service (available for...
19.11.2024
Petrolesport Handles Largest Ever Bulker
Global Ports’ St. Petersburg-based Petrolesport has handled the largest bulker in its history, the 225 m LOA 38,000+ GRT “Hongsheng”, Global Ports said in a statement. The vessel delivered general...
18.11.2024
TMS Tanker conference underlines need for collaboration to accelerate shipping’s journey to net zero
Environmental issues and factors influencing the sustainability of tanker shipping as it steps up to play its full part in decarbonising the industry in decades to come were the dominant...
18.11.2024
Export Designated Fertilizers Rail Traffic in January-October 2024
Russian Railways have reported a 16.5% year-on-year growth of export designated fertilizers transportation by rail in January-October 2024. 29.3 mn tons of export designated fertilizers was carried by rail during...
15.11.2024
Container Traffic via Arctic Basin Ports in September 2024 up 55%
In September 2024, Russian Arctic ports handled 20.2 thousand TEU, up 55% year-on-year accounting for 4.5% of the entire container traffic via all the Russian sea ports. The article is...
15.11.2024
Multimodal Hub for Russian Grain Exports in Iran
Russia’s NOVO Development Center and Iran’s IranianEurasia Trading and Logistics have signed an agreement on establishing a joint venture and building a Grain+ hub in Iran. The grain hub is...
15.11.2024
Azov and Caspian Freight Market, Week 46, 2023
On week 46, freight rates in the Azov and Black Sea region continue to decline. Contracts for the transportation of 3,000 tons of deadweight cargo from Azov to ports in...
13.11.2024
Global Ports Adds Storage Option for Fertilizers at Ust-Luga
Ust-Luga Container Terminal in the deepwater port of Ust-Luga, part pf Global Ports, has offered an option to store hazardous cargo at the terminal since November. Now, the terminal is...
13.11.2024
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy to Develop Intermodal Terminal in Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy has signed an agreement a project to create an intermodal cargo terminal in the seaport of Alyat, Azerbaijan, the company said in a statement. Other participant of...
12.11.2024
First Shipment of Potash Fertilizers from Belarus via Makhachkala
Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port has started handling a large shipment of potash fertilizers from Belarus designated for Iran. The cargo was delivered to the port by rail. By the end...
12.11.2024
Ruscon Modernizes Power Supply Network at Novorossiysk Terminal
Ruscon, a multimodal transport operator incorporated into Delo Group, has completed a project to upgrade the power supply networks of its R-4 multifunctional container terminal in Novorossiysk in the framework...
11.11.2024
Far East Basin Ports’ Throughput in September 2024: Ferrous Metals Down
Cargo traffic via the sea ports in the Russian Far East decreased 7.4% year-on-year in September 2024 to make 18.6 mn tons, according to the official data available. The article...
11.11.2024
Zvezda Can Be Integrated into United Shipbuilding Corporation
Rosneft and Bank VTB have entered into negotiations on incorporating Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex into United Shipbuilding Corporation, Rosneft said in a statement. The yard has reached its project capacity and...
11.11.2024
Russia’s Export and Import in January-August 2024
The foreign trade turnover of the Russian Federation during January-August 2024 made $456 bn, 2.3% below the figure for the first eight months of 2023. According to the RF Federal...
08.11.2024
Zabaikalsk Road Border Crossing Capacity to Increase 5.5-Fold
At present, a plan to modernize the Zabaikalsk international road border crossing checkpoint at the Russia-China border is being designed, the RF Federal Agency or the Development of State Border...
08.11.2024
Container Traffic via Far East Basin Ports in September 2024
Container traffic via the Russian Far East sea ports made 230.1 thousand TEU in September 2024 decreasing 0.2% year-on-year, according to available official data. The article is based on SeaNews...
08.11.2024
“Azimut-1” Chemtanker Sets Sail for Sea Trials
The chemical tanker “Azimut-1” built to the 00216M design has set sail from ASPO Yard of United Shipbuilding Corporation’s Southern Shipbuilding Center for sea trials, USC said in a statement....
07.11.2024
“Chukotka” Nuclear Icebreaker Launched in St. Petersburg
On Wednesday, RF President Vladimir Putin participated, via video link, in a ceremony for launching “Chukotka” nuclear icebreaker under construction in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin press office reported. The new...
07.11.2024
Azov and Caspian Freight Market, Week 45, 2023
On week 45, freight rates in Azov and Black Sea region moved downward. Thus, contracts for a shipment of 3,000 tons of deadweight cargo from Azov to Marmara Sea ports...
07.11.2024
Russian Azov and Black Sea Ports’ Throughput Down 8.9% YoY in September 2024
The Russian sea ports located in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov handled a total of 22.5 mn tons of cargo in September 2024, down 8.9% year-on-year. The...
06.11.2024
Ruscon Inaugurates Additional Customs Bonded Warehouse in Moscow
Ruscon, a multimodal transport operator incorporated into Delo Group, has opened an additional customs warehouse with an area of over 1,400 square meters at its own site at Transport and...
06.11.2024
First Freight Express Train from Tatarstan
Russian Railways have reported the first shipment of barley from the station of Kukmor in Tatarstan in the framework of the Freight Express train. The cargo weighing more than 3,400...
05.11.2024
Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port Adds Equipment
Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port has acquired a LiuGong front loader for solid bulk cargo and four SANY SCP130H forklift trucks, the port said. The LiuGong unit is at the time...
05.11.2024
Container Traffic via Russian Azov and Black Sea Ports Up 8.2% in September
Container traffic via the Russian sea ports located in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea grew by 8.2% year-on-year to make 79.1 thousand TEU. The article is based...