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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.

Featured May 10, 2024

Arkhangelsk-Shanghai To Become A Regular Northern Sea Route Service

China’s Yangpu Newnew Shipping plans to make 10-12 shipping runs from Shanghai to Arkhangelsk along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2024, according to the government of the Arkhangelsk region. Alexander Tsybulsky, Arkhangelsk Regional head, and Tsetsen Goryaev, the General Director of the Arkhangelsk Commercial Sea Port and Elena Maximova, the General Director of Torgmall […]

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Featured May 9, 2024

Russia Aims For 50% Domestic Passenger Aircraft Fleet By 2030

As we discussed yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on Russia’s National Development Goals to 2030. This includes increasing the share of domestically produced aircraft in Russian airline fleets to at least 50%. “To set the following targets and tasks – Increasing the aviation mobility of the population by at least 50% […]

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May 8, 2024

First Agroexpress Chelyabinsk Freight Train Leaves For Chengdu

The Yuzhnouralsky Dry Port and Rusagrotek LLC have sent the first container train with agricultural products from Chelyabinsk to Zabaikalsk, one of the China border crossings. The train will proceed to Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province, with the total travel time estimated at 14 days. The train consists of 70 forty-foot containers. The route was […]

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May 4, 2024

First Russia-India Direct Agroexpress Train Sent From Chelyabinsk To Mumbai

The first fully-fledged Agroexpress train, carrying oat flakes and cereals has been sent from the Yuzhnouralsky Transport and Logistics Center in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region to India’s Mundra Port in Mumbai via the eastern route of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), the press service of the State Transport Leasing Company has announced. The Agroexpress route […]

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May 1, 2024

Trans-Caspian International Transport Route Bottlenecks Discussed 

The World Bank has identified ten critical actions to address the most pressing short-term bottlenecks across the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor, according to a brief published on the bank’s official website. The solutions are based on a tripling of trade volumes through the Middle Corridor by 2030. With […]

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April 30, 2024

Russia – Indian Ocean Multimodal Corridors Being Developed

The first meeting on the development of the international Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan multimodal transport corridor with access to Indian Ocean Seaports has been held in Termez, Uzbekistan, and was attended by officials from respective national transport departments, freight forwarding companies and businesses. They discussed the possibilities of increasing the volume of international cargo transportation along land corridors, […]

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April 26, 2024

Flights Resume From Sakhalin to Phuket  

Charter flights from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Thailand will resume after a four-year break, as Russia’s Far East tourism reconnects with Southeast Asia. Tour operator Pegas Touristik together with the Russian regional Ikar airline will service the route to Thailand. Flights EO 3629/3630 will be operated on the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – Phuket – Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk route. Sakhalin is north […]

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April 25, 2024

Baikal-Amur Rail To Be Developed For Russia’s AsiaPac Markets

The Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railroad is one of the biggest infrastructures of the 20th century and will be further developed to expand Russia’s export and transit capabilities and to raise living standards for Russians living nearby, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday (April 23). The BAM is a broad-gauge railway, traversing Eastern Siberia and […]

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April 23, 2024

INSTC Route Has Potential To Carry 60-100 Million Tonnes

The flow of cargo traffic via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) may reach up to 60-100 million tonnes in the future, depending on necessity and relevance, Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev has said. To put that into context, this would be roughly equivalent to 10% of the global tonnage that transited the Suez Canal […]

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April 23, 2024

Russia’s Container Market Grew 13% In Q1 2024

The Russian container market grew 13% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, to 1.608 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), Russia’s FESCO transport group has said. The figures are indicative of expanding import-export trade.  Imports increased 10% to 706,000 TEU, and exports were up 13% to 436,000 TEU. Domestic […]

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April 20, 2024

Russia’s Exports to Africa Outstrip Exports to the Americas

African countries have significantly boosted imports from Russia, in signs that the shift to trade development with the global south is having a profound effect on supply chains, trade flows and creating new opportunities. Africa outperformed Russia’s trade partners from the Americas – the United States, Canada, Mexico and Latin America.  In 2023, the share […]

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