Logistics & Transport

The new spring 2024 schedule for Russian airlines flight schedules includes the opening of new foreign destinations and the resumption of previously existing, but mothballed routes. Details are as follows: Russia-China Yakutia Airlines are to begin operating direct regular flights on the Yekaterinburg-Beijing route from April 4, with departures three times a week on Mondays, […]

The Yemen-based Houthi militants have told Russia and China that their ships can sail freely through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without fear of being attacked. An understanding was reached during talks in Oman involving Russian and Chinese diplomats and senior Houthi political figures. The Houthi rebels have carried out dozens of drone

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that the European Union’s embargo on the purchase, import and transfer of Russian crude oil at the end of 2022 has had almost no impact on the total volume of Russian oil exports. As the following chart shows, this is due to other countries filling in the

Russian airlines saw total passenger turnover rise 13% year-on-year to 18.8 billion passenger-kilometers in February 2024, according to data from Rosaviatsia – Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport. The figure increased nearly 7% to around 11.3 billion passenger-kilometers on domestic routes, and 24% to 7.6 billion passenger-kilometers on international routes. Airlines saw passenger traffic rise