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The first Chinese container shipping services are set to re-commence along the Northern Sea Route to Murmansk in early summer. Usage of this passage hit record volumes last year.
Russia’s AGR Holding and China’s Defetoo are expanding their joint venture and completing the technical refurbishment of the former United States-owned GM Motors auto plant in Shushary, St. Petersburg. The equipment has already been installed at the plant and will shortly begin the full production cycle. AGR acquired the GM facility in 2024, where the […]
The relaunch of railway transport along the Skovorodino-Reynovo railway line is scheduled for 2026, according to Alexey Mestnikov, the Deputy General Director for Strategic Development of Yakutia Railways. This railway line leads to the Dzhalinda mixed checkpoint on the border with China and was mothballed in the early 2000s due to low freight traffic. Now […]
The Indian shipping regulator has extended the accreditation of four Russian companies providing Protection and Indemnity (P&I) insurance for vessels calling at the country’s ports for one month, according to the Indian Directorate General of Shipping. Russian insurers Soglasie, Yugoria, Sberbank Insurance, and ASTK Insurance have all had their insurance licenses extended to 20 March […]
Russia and Belarus are planning to launch cross-border suburban trains, which will operate on the basis of free movement within the Eurasian Economic Union, according to Alexander Khoroshevich, First Deputy Head of the Belarusian Railways. Citizens of both countries and foreigners holding residence visas of either may use the cross-border service without needing to pass […]
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Russia’s FESCO transportation group has achieved a new weekly record volume of railway container transport from the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port. From 9 to 15 February, 6,767 TEU were sent from VMTP as part of 45 container trains. This is 62 TEU more than the previous weekly maximum achieved in August 2024. FESCO stated that […]
Russia’s FESCO Transport Group has launched container shipping between Cambodia and Russia as part of expanding its maritime services, the company has said. Cambodia is in Southeast Asia and a member of the ASEAN trade bloc. It is also in the process of negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which […]
A delegation from Iran’s IRISL Shipping Line has been visiting Russia’s Astrakhan region, with meetings held to discuss developing cooperation in shipbuilding and ship repair. The discussions included the Minister of Industry, Trade, and Energy of the Astrakhan region, Vitaly Shchepin; the Deputy Minister of External Relations of the Astrakhan region, Ilya Toropitsyn; the Director […]
Rossiya Airlines, part of Aeroflot Group, plans to continue its flight program to and from airports in Havana and Varadero, Cuba, despite the current fuel shortage in Cuba, according to Aeroflot. Air Canada has suspended flights, citing problems with aviation fuel supplies in the country, caused by a United States blockade on fuel reaching Cuba. […]
Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group has sent container trains from Kurgan, in the southern Russian Urals, to Tianjin, on the northeast China coast, for the first time, according to a company statement. Two trains carrying cereal crops headed to Tianjin via Kazakhstan and the Altynkol-Khorgos border crossing. Each train consists of 62 forty-foot containers. Total transport […]
China has begun deliveries of bonded cargo from the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area to Russia by road for the first time under the TIR international transport system. This allows for a significant simplification of cargo transport between two countries. Under this system, the cargo is sealed at the starting point of the route and […]
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