Imports

Russia Launches Shipping Service Between Novorossiysk and Mombasa

Africa, Agriculture, Exports, Imports, Trade

Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group has established a marine container service between Novorossiysk and the Kenyan port of Mombasa on the East African coast. The first consignment of FESCO containers is already being loaded in Mombasa to ship Kenyan tea to Russia. The overall transit time between Mombasa and Novorossiysk is around 43 days. The bulk […]

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Eurasian Economic Union Reaches Agreement on Unified E-Commerce  

Eurasian Economic Union, Exports, Imports, Russian Market, Trade

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has reached an agreement on a draft document regarding e-commerce in goods within the EAEU territory which sets unified requirements for the operations of EAEU marketplaces. The EAEU includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia and fits the geographic space between Eastern Europe and Western China. It has a population

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Asia’s Rubber Exports To Russia To Decline As SIBUR Looks To Introduce Synthetics

Asia, Imports, Investment, Russian Market

Russia’s SIBUR, a major integrated petrochemicals company, is finalizing tests of experimental tires made with synthetic rubber instead of natural rubber in collaboration with its partners and plans to present the results in 2025. Daria Borisova, SIBUR’s Managing Director for Development and Innovation, said that preliminary results from bench, test site and durability tests confirm

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Russia-China Bilateral Trade Expected To Reach US$243 Billion For 2024

China, Exports, Imports, Trade

Bilateral trade between Russia and China has increased by 2.1% year-on-year to US$222.774 billion in the first eleven months of 2024, according to data released on Tuesday (December 10) by China’s customs. That implies a 2024 total of US$243 billion will be reached for the year, a record high and slightly more than last years

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Russia – Kenya 2024 Bilateral & Trade Relations: Update

Africa, Exports, Imports, Trade

Russian entrepreneurs are preparing to supply agricultural products and wines to Kenya, and plans are underway to establish a Russian trading house in Nairobi, according to Vladimir Vishnevsky, head of the commission for developing relations with Africa at ‘New Formation’, one of Russia’s largest business organizations. The comments were made following a recent meeting between

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China-Europe Rail Freight Continues To Rely Heavily on Russia Transit

China, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Rail freight from China to Europe continues to rely heavily on transit through Russia, however the EU’s own sanctions, and especially new counter-sanctions imposed by the Kremlin, continue to create significant obstacles. For example, Italian logistics firms and importers have been complaining that containers following the China-Europe rail route have been stopping in Russia in

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Russia-China Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang Bridge Crossing Exports: Update 

China, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

The new Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang cross-border bridge between Russia and China has proved beneficial to Russia’s raw material exports since it opened in November 2022, and has become a key route for Russian coal and iron ore to be transported to China. Chinese finished goods are also imported in containers via the same cross-border bridge. Russia’s Transit

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China Auto Manufacturer Considering Manufacturing Facility In Siberia and Russian Far East

China, Foreign Investment, Imports, Russian Market

A Chinese automaker is considering Novosibirsk and Irkutsk regions as possible locations for a plant, the chairman of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RAUIE), Vitaly Mankevich has stated. He was speaking at the GlobalSibExpo-China 2024 Automobile Transport, Logistics and Engineering Forum in Novosibirsk. Mankevich said that “The construction of a Chinese automobile company’s

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Russia – Peru 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

BRICS, Exports, Imports, Latin America, Trade

Peru has been hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, with the head of the Russian delegation, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, received by the Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén Olaya. During their meeting, the sides discussed the current state of trade and economic relations between Russia and Peru as well as their prospects

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Operator Sought For Astrakhan-Turkmenbashi Port Ferry Services

Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

The Russian Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Energy of the Astrakhan region has stated that regional authorities are working on the issue of determining an operator for a regular ferry service to be launched between the Olya port, in the Astrakhan region and Turkmenbashi port in Turkmenistan. Large Caspian shipping companies are apparently ready to

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