Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) has launched a major research initiative aimed at studying marine biology resources along the coast of 18 African countries in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. A ceremony to launch the expedition took place on Wednesday (August 22) at the marine fishing port in Kaliningrad, Russia, and was attended Russian […]
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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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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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.
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 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
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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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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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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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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