Russia is investing huge amounts of capital to support its pivot to Asia, with massive road, rail, maritime, and air connectivity projects, as well as giant energy infrastructure projects, all underway. Russia aims to boost exports by increasing foreign infrastructure construction support by 13 times. Discover investment opportunities in Russian infrastructure. Analysis of key projects in transport, logistics, and energy. A vital resource for construction, finance, and engineering firms.
Several Western airlines are pulling out of routes servicing China as sanctions have forced Western carriers to incur greater operational costs by avoiding Russian airspace. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Quantas are just three who are giving up what were lucrative direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai. Other, BRICS and BRICS related airlines are now […]
The container turnover of Russian seaports in January-June 2024 amounted to 2.744 million TEU, 14% more than in the same period of 2023, according to the analytical review of Morcentre-TEK. In general, according to the Morcentre’s data, 987,500 TEU – an increase of 15.8% – were loaded for exports, with imports up 15.9% at 1.15 […]
Andrey Avetisyan, Russia’s Ambassador to Tanzania, has identified the country as having attractive potential as a trade hub to develop Russian trade with Africa and beyond. The countries east coast can bee easily connected with the existing North-South Transport Corridor, and lies on the Indian Ocean. Avetisyan said that “Tanzania has access to the Indian […]
Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, has had the contracts it possessed with now unfriendly countries all terminated, according to First Deputy General Director Andrei Yelchaninov. The company, with multiple subsidiaries, had been involved with everything from building the International Space Station (ISS) main capsules, ferrying astronauts to the ISS, putting other countries satellites in orbit, monitoring […]
The Indian government has approved a proposal for building a large deep water port on its western coast to connect it with major global trade networks and handle trade with Russia, New Delhi has announced. The port, to be built at Vadhavan in the Maharashtra state, would aid trade flow through the International North-South Transportation […]
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The Zabaikalsk border checkpoint on the Chinese border with Manzhouli in China’s Inner Mongolia Province is now the most in-demand crossing between Russia and China for cargo carriers. According to Russia’s Federal Customs Service (FCS), in the first six months of this year, imports of Chinese goods to Russia through this border crossing increased by […]
The Ob, Irtysh, Lena, and Yenisei Rivers are all to be developed to access the Northern Sea Route Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) and Rosatom are to jointly create logistics hubs on the Ob, Irtysh, Lena and Yenisei rivers, with the aim to give improved access to the Northern Sea Route […]
Amur, Ussuri Rivers give Pacific Ocean access to China’s landlocked Heilongjiang Province Russia and China are developing cargo transport corridors under the joint “River-Sea” development programme for the first time. The Chinese deep-water, Manjita river port is located at Fuyuan city in Heilongjiang, with the Manjita port having access to the Amur (Heilongjiang) and Ussuri […]
Mass Digital Ruble Usage Expected By July 2025 In an effort to intensify, speed up, and broaden the available tools used for settling international transactions, the Russian State Duma has passed, in its first reading, a bill that opens the way for the Bank of Russia to launch an experimental platform for the use of […]
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that New Delhi and Moscow are working on expanding the capabilities of the 10,300-kilometre Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor connecting Russia’s Far East and Southeastern India. Referring to the concept as a meeting of the ‘Ganges & Volga’, Modi reiterated that the corridor is expected to reduce the time required […]
Pakistan has outlined a strategic rail map to engage with Russia and connect the two nations via railway networks and secure trade routes by circumventing the threat of US sanctions. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has endorsed this proposal, and revealed that its government was developing a three-pronged strategy including government-to-government (G2G) frameworks and projects, […]
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