Russia imported about US$240 billion worth of goods in 2025, ranging from selected agricultural products, cars, machinery, electronics, and high-tech goods. The Russian consumer market is also changing in light of new preferences and tastes created by its move into new markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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Overall tourism numbers to Russia have tripled from the beginning of 2024, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). There were 13 million trips by foreign nationals to Russia from January to September 2024, up 11% from the same period last year, according to data from the FSB border service. The data also shows a […]
Two new shipping lines are to open between Russia and Egypt for the transportation of refrigerated containers. Egypt’s Global Logistics, an agent of the Cairo forwarder Fox Shipping, will become the operator of two marine container lines: El Dekheila – Novorossiysk and El Dekheila – St. Petersburg. El Edkhelia is the main port of Alexandria […]
Russia’s FESCO (Far Eastern Shipping Company) Transport Group shipped over 11,500 TEU between the ports of India and Novorossiysk in the first nine months of 2024 as part of its Indian Line West Marine service, according to German Maslov, Vice President of FESCO’s logistics division has said: “Our transportation volume has increased many times, 57 […]
Russia has begun to purchase butter from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the first time it has imported the product from the country. Before, the European Union was a major source of the product, with 28% of all EU butter exports going to Russia. Russia began importing UAE butter on October 18, and in the […]
Russia’s multimodal transport operator Ruscon, part of the Delo Group, is launching a regular service for delivering consolidated cargo from Israel to Russia, the company has stated. Goods will be consolidated at warehousing in the Haifa Port, then shipped in large containers to Ruscon’s Delo Group’s marine terminal in Novorossiysk. Cargo will be deconsolidated at […]
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Haval autos, (part of China’s Great Wall Motors) plans to expand the production facilities of its Tula based factory, with upgrades now ongoing. Starting in 2025, after the modernisation is completed, Haval will produce up to 200,000 cars per year from the Tula site, according to Andrey Akifyev, Executive Director of Haval Motor Rus. That […]
Vladimir Putin has met with, Pham Minh Chinh, the Prime Minister of Vietnam, following the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “Once again, allow me to warmly welcome you to Russia. I have warm memories from my recent visit to Vietnam and the conversation we had. It was […]
Russia has been buying millions of eels from the UK’s only eel supplier, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper. It is a bilateral trade that raises almost as many questions as the surprising nature of the trade itself. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a protected, red-listed species, with the number of elvers […]
Indian media is reporting that two of the country’s shipyards will work on building four non-nuclear icebreaking ships for Rosatom, with the likely contact set to go to Gujarat shipyards – Indian Prime Minister Modi’s home region. New Delhi is already considering one state-owned and one private shipbuilder for the plan, while reports state that […]
Russia’s Minister of Transport, Roman Starovoit, and the Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk have met with the Pakistani Minister of Privatisation, Communications and Affairs of the Investment Council, Abdul Alim Khan, where the parties discussed issues of transport and logistics cooperation. During 2023, the volume of traffic between Russia and Pakistan doubled, and in the […]
Tajikistan’s President, Emomali Rahmon has met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, as part of the two countries Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation Commission in Dushanbe. The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “The meeting addressed strengthening multi-faceted cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia. Attention was paid to expanding ties between the two countries in trade, […]
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