Russia is investing huge sums of capital in developing infrastructure, especially in its border regions, ranging from Georgia and Azerbaijan to Turkiye, the Middle East, and deeper into Asia. This creates additional opportunities in commerce and trade as these begin to come into service. Optimize your Russia-Eurasia supply chain. Get news and analysis on Eurasian transport corridors, freight solutions, and customs. Essential for logistics providers and international traders.
The Nizhnekamsk district in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan is to develop and launch quay infrastructure of a new Kama River port next year, which will become part of a logistics complex linking to the INSTC corridor. This will open up the region to be part of the North-South Corridor and improve trade links with […]
Primorsky Krai investors in the Russian Far East are implementing four projects for the construction of logistics complexes, with a total announced investment in excess of ₽120 billion (US$1.5 billion), according to Yana Ryzhkova, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Environmental Protection, Wildlife, and Natural Resources of Primorsky Krai. She has stated that Primorsky local companies have […]
Russia and China will strengthen cooperation on Arctic issues, according to a joint communiqué following the 30th regular meeting of their heads of government. Russian Prime Minister Mishustin recently visited Beijing and took part in these discussions. The communique states “They agreed to develop cooperation on Arctic issues, including interaction within the Subcommittee on Cooperation […]
In signs that regional relations, impacted by the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, are now returning to normal, Armenia is considering the possibility of importing various goods from Russia by rail through Azerbaijan, according to Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister. Armenia is landlocked, with its only regional sea access either via Azerbaijan on the Caspian or through […]
Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian government to develop transport and logistics centers on the border with China and North Korea, according to the Kremlin. The Kremlin statement says “The Russian government has been instructed to take measures to ensure the development of multimodal transport and logistics centers in the Far Eastern Federal District and […]
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Russian Railways Logistics has sent a full container train along the INSTC route from Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals region, to Mundra Port, in Gujarat, India. The train, consisting of 62 twenty-foot containers with oats, followed the eastern rail route of the INSTC North–South to Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port and was then shipped to Mundra. […]
The government’s interdepartmental working group on the creation and development of Russian Special Economic Zones (SEZ) has approved expanding the Kulibin SEZ in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, with a river port and new production facilities being planned, according to the regional government. The Kulibin SEZ currently has a site in Dzerzhinsk, while the additional 117.7-hectare […]
The “Middle Volga-Caspian International Logistics Forum” has been held in Ulyanovsk, attended by delegations from Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Iran, an important event to discuss operations along the Middle and Southern Corridor aspect of the International North-South Transport Corridor. There are now plans to create a single logistics operator to develop the Middle Volga–Caspian–Persian […]
Russia and Mongolia are planning to update the plans to develop railway and roadway transport corridors by the end of the year, Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister, Alexei Shilo, has said. Shilo was meeting with Batmunkh Nasantogtokh, the State Secretary of the Mongolian Ministry of Roads and Transport. They formalized the agreements at this week’s meeting […]
Alexey Overchuk, Russia’s Deputy Chairman, has been speaking at the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur this week and has identified logistics as a key driver in developing Russia–ASEAN regional trade. Overchuk stated, “Given its geographical location and colossal transit potential, Russia invests in global transport connectivity through the development of transport corridors connecting Eurasia […]
India and Russia have committed to a new aircraft production partnership, with India’s state-backed Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signing a memorandum of understanding with Russia’s PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) to produce civil commuter SJ-100 aircraft, the companies have announced. The Superjet SJ-100 is a twin-engine, narrow-body Russian regional passenger aircraft already in commercial service, […]
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