Russia’s exports in 2025 were characterized by shifts in energy trade, increased reliance on Asian buyers and stable, high-demand grain exports, with overall trade figures showing resilience, especially in non-oil/gas sectors, while adapting to new market dynamics. Key trends include exports of crude oil, fertilizers, and grain exports exceeding forecasts. Source products from Russia with confidence. Get insights into Russia’s key export industries, trade finance, and logistics. Essential for importers and businesses building a Russian supply chain.
A cross-border trade center will be created at the Kazakhstan-Russia border, as announced during a meeting between Kanat Khasenov, the Consul General of Kazakhstan in Astrakhan, and Igor Babushkin, the Governor of Russia’s Astrakhan region. Babushkin noted that the Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the main partners of Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast (Province) with strong […]
Russia could increase pork exports to 320,000-350,000 tonnes in 2025, according to Yury Kovalev, the CEO of the Russian National Union of Pork Producers. A more precise forecast will depend on whether China expands the list of Russian suppliers or if it will continue to include only three companies. Kovalev that “Without any expansion of […]
Russian fertilizer production exceeded 63 million tonnes in 2024, rising 6%-7% year-on-year, Russian Fertilizer Producers Association (RAPU) CEO Andrei Guryev has stated, saying “We will produce more than 63 million tonnes of all types of mineral fertilizers in 2024. This is an absolute record not seen since Soviet times. The absolute growth year-on-year will be […]
Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group has opened a subsidiary enterprise in Vietnam to develop maritime and intermodal container transportation in Southeast Asian countries, the company has said. DBF Logistics Vietnam will ensure the smooth operation and development of the group’s services in Vietnam, including the regular FESCO Vietnam Direct Line which connects Vladivostok with the ports […]
The St Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) has said it will set a new record for the sale of timber and its processed products in 2024 of around 5.3 million to 5.5 million cubic meters, amounting to about ₽10 billion (US$97.2 million) in monetary terms, SPIMEX Managing Director Alexei Ryzhikov has said, in a year […]
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The Russian Fishery Shipowners Association (FSA) has said that Russia exported more than 1 million tonnes of frozen fish in 9M 2024, accounting for 17.4% of global exports compared to 16.2% at the end of 2023, following an analysis of global fish export statistics. The FSA said that “Frozen fish remains the main product of […]
Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture Agroexport Center has said that Russia exported dairy products worth US$370 million in 11M 2024, up 20% year-on-year. More than 30% of these export revenues came from cheeses and cottage cheese, 22% from fermented dairy products, 14% from ice cream, 11% from powdered milk, 9% from milk and cream and 6% […]
Russia’s Baltika beer brand, which was sold to its Russian management team for US$320 million in December last year following Carlsberg’s exit from the Russian consumer market, have launched 11 new online stores on popular internet platforms in China, and plans to open a trading house in Shanghai by the end of 2024. Baltika Brewery […]
Russia’s state energy giant Rosneft has agreed to supply up to 500,000 barrels a day of various crude oil grades, under a ten year contract, to Indian private refiner Reliance. Worth roughly US$13 billion a year at current prices, the energy deal is the biggest-ever between Moscow and New Delhi. Under the decade -long agreement, […]
Russia’s Uralchem Group has delivered a humanitarian shipment of 55,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Sri Lanka. The shipment arrived in Colombo on December 12, and has been handed to the Sri Lankan government for distribution to its agricultural sector. The country has faced agricultural shortages since a previous administration inexplicitly banned the importation of fertilizer […]
Russia has increased its exports of wheat to Africa by 35% in 10M this year, reaching over 21 million tonnes, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport center. Egypt, Algeria, and Kenya were the main importers of Russian wheat in Africa, but supplies also increased 6-fold to Morocco, and by 3.7 times to Nigeria. Of […]
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