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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been visiting Azerbaijan on August 18-19, holding negotiations and discussions with Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev. The talks are designed to address the further development of Russian-Azerbaijani relations of strategic partnership and alliance, as well as current international and regional issues” according to a Kremlin press release. Plans are in place […]
China’s main thrust into the potential of investing in Russia as part of its global Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) overseas investment and infrastructure plan essentially began in 2018, when the Chinese government published its “China-Russia Cooperation and Development Plan for the Russian Far East (2018-2024).” This is a programmatic policy document guiding cooperation between […]
Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group is launching the FESCO Intra Asia Service (FIAS) regular line between Vietnam and Malaysia, the company has stated. A 400TEU container ship from the FESCO fleet will operate the line between the Vietnamese port of Ho Chi Minh City and Malaysia’s Port Klang. The ship will depart once a week and […]
The volume of air freight transported overseas by Russian airlines in H1 2024 amounted to 63,400 tonnes, 3% more than in the same period of 2023, according to statistics from the Federal Air Transport Agency. To compare, in the first 6 months of 2022, which saw international air cargo at 196,000 tonnes meaning that slow […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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