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
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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
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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
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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,
The cost of transporting a 40-foot container on the Shanghai—Moscow route, despite an increase in October this year, remains at a five-year minimum—at US$5,300, according to the Centre for Price Indices estimates. However, rates for the Russian Federation remain more expensive than for China delivery to the European Baltic States ports and to Finland at
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Russia and Cambodia have been discussing the expansion of their bilateral trade, including increasing supplies of fertilizer from Russia, following meetings between Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet in Kuala Lumpur. They held meetings on the sidelines of the 20th East Asia Summit, which is currently taking place. A
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A new Russia-China cross-border checkpoint has opened, situated at Lesozavodsk, in Primorsky Krai. It is near to the Chinese city of Jixi in China’s Heilongjiang Province, where the Russia-China border runs down the length of the Ussuri River. Lesozavodsk is 10 kilometers from the Sino–Russian border and about 300 kilometers north of Vladivostok. The Lesozavodsk
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The development of ‘territorial organisation’ of the Russian economy is one of the main goals of the new ‘Strategy for the Spatial Development of Russia 2026-2036’, with the Siberian Federal District to play a significant role in terms of Russia’s connectivity to the Far East, the Arctic, and European Russia. However, to allow Siberia to
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