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.
India is planning to send cargo ships along the Northern Sea Route from next year, according to Shri Venkatesapathy, the Indian Shipping Ministry joint secretary. For India, the Arctic route can save up to 40% in distance and about two weeks in travel time to most European ports.
Russia has been developing a massive international railway strategy that includes multiple industrial development sectors and infrastructure across Central Asia, the Middle East, India, China, and deep into Southeast Asia on a scale little recognised. We deep dive the expansion of Russia’s railway development, how it is managing this, and the potential new routes that could become available.
The 2026 Uzbekistan-Bashkortostan Business Forum has just taken place in Ufa, Russia. With bilateral trade growing at 20% this year, we deep dive the relationship between Bashkortostan and Uzbekistan, the investments being made and the prospects of the two countries hitting US$30 billion in trade by 2030.
The 2026 Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Forum has just taken place in Omsk. With bilateral trade growing at over 10% in 2026, we deep dive the extent of their regional integration and logistics and examine the US$833 million worth of investments signed during the event as both countries are set to deepen Eurasian connectivity.
Russia has proposed developing new rail connectivity to India, with multi-modal options available via Iran and Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Significant diplomatic efforts will need to be put in from both Moscow and Beijing to see these concepts come to fruition. But a failure to do so could also damage India and Pakistan’s trade and energy supply chain capabilities.
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Russia’s Berezovsky city, in Siberia, is developing a new freight and logistics centre to link with the eastern INSTC and better connection with markets in India and Iran. It offers opportunities to increase trade in both directions and includes Russia’s third largest city as a potential market.
Russia and Brazil are looking at expanding their maritime logistics capabilities as trade increases. Brazil especially is interested in closing the 90-10% trade gap between the two countries and wants to develop its exports sector to the Russian market.
Russia’s MC-21-310 aircraft, built using entirely Russian-made components, has taken to the skies for the first time, the state-run Joint Aviation Corporation (OAK) has said. The development of the aircraft renders Western aviation sanctions against Russia increasingly redundant and has instead boosted Russian engineering and manufacturing capabilities.
Russia and India are preparing for the pending Free Trade Agreement between India and the Eurasian Economic Union with logistics and other agreements all being worked on. They are preparing all sides for what can be expected to result in a significant boom in trade. India’s trade with all EAEU members is already showing significant increases.
Russia’s development of its domestic freight and logistics sector is expected to grow by over 13% in the period 2026-2031. We provide a comprehensive breakdown of this data – which is nearly 3 times more than the United States growth, and over 4 times more than the European Union over the same period.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the Indian Minister of External Affairs. With bilateral relations booming, we discuss the current state of industrial cooperation in infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing, agriculture and trade.
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