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Murmansk Port

Russia To Prioritise Development Of Five Arctic Ports & Three Connecting Rivers 

China, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev, who oversees the country’s national maritime policy, has stated that the Arctic ports of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Dikson, Tiksi and Pevek are the priority developments to allow the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to become one of Russia’s main transport arteries. This needs to be carried out in conjunction with the development […]

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Dragon Wall

FESCO Launches Bulk Cargo Maritime Freight Service from Shanghai to St. Petersburg

China, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia’s FESCO Transport Group has launched a regular marine service for the delivery of bulk cargoes from Shanghai to St. Petersburg, the company has said. This includes services for the collection of goods from warehouses within a radius of up to 300 km from Shanghai. The first container ship within the framework of the service

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BRICS Discussing An Aerospace Engine Consortium

BRICS, Foreign Investment, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Anton Alikhanov, Russia’s Trade & Industry Minister, has stated that the BRICS nations would create a consortium for the construction of aircraft engines, after a meeting between the BRICS countries’ industry ministers. We stated that “We hope that our proposals on creating a consortium in power engineering, in particular, aero engine construction, will be supported.

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FESCO

Direct Shipping Introduced Between Vladivostok, Malaysia and Vietnam

Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

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

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Russia & Mongolia 2024 Latest: Joint Venture Mineral Mining and December Free Trade Agreement

China, Eurasian Economic Union, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia and Mongolia are compiling a list of mineral resource sites for joint geological exploration in their border area under agreements reached at a meeting of their intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation, according to Alexander Kozlov, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia. Kozlov stated that “Mineral resource use has recently

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Russia’s Domestic and International Air Freight Volumes Show Signs Of Recovery

Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

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

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Airline Sunset

Western Airlines Pull Out Of China, Leaving Huge Development Opportunities For The BRICS 

Africa, BRICS, China, India, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

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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Russia’s Shadow Fleet Evades Sanctions While Western Maritime Shipping Faces Problems

Energy, Logistics & Transport, Trade

The 2022 price cap on oil sanctions that placed a limit of US$60 per barrel on Russian crude, are another example where ill-thought out economic policies matched with related geopolitical movements have instead created problems for the West’s own shipping supply chains. The oil cap sanctions, introduced in September 2022, were intended to limit the

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China, Saudi Arabia and Germany Are Top Users Of Russia’s E-Visa System

China, Economy, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia’s Unified Electronic Visa system for entry into Russia has been in operation now for exactly one year, with 540,900 foreign nationals using it to enter Russia.  The Russian Foreign Ministry has released data for the period August 2023 to July 2024. Bear in mind these figures are for E-Visas only and do not include

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Overall Russian Container Turnover Grows 14% In H1 2024

Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

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

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