Russia’s container market increase by 18% year-on-year
NewsIn February of this year alone, Russia’s container market rose by 23.5 per cent year-on-year to 533,000 TEU. The preceding month also saw ...
Ukraine to resume Ro-Ro and container shipping
NewsWhile Ukraine has managed to expand throughput via its sea harbours to 75% of pre-war levels, further growth is hindered by reduced producti...
Port nationalised
NewsMoscow has now nationalised Kaliningrad Commercial Seaport (KMTP). The Russian exclave’s Central District Court of Kaliningrad has upheld ...
Baltic Republics’ moves
NewsEstonia plans to nationalise and sell off assets owned by sanctions-hit Russian companies and will auction marine terminals in Muuga and Sil...
Containerised bulk for Global Ports Group
NewsRussia’s Global Ports Group has purchased a fleet of specialised bulk containers to support its new bulk cargo export customers....
Russia looks to Turkey for shipping routes
NewsHaving lost most of its maritime links with European countries, Moscow has been developing its ties with Turkey. A new sea route has been op...
Maersk closing all operations in Russia – books $718M impairment
NewsMaersk has stopped all vessel operations in Russia and service with Belarus and is “winding down” its domestic operations in both countr...
Baltkran keeps lifting in the cold
NewsRussian crane OEM Baltkran is supplying cranes for an arctic port in Norilsk and a supply base in Western Siberia....
Bronka nationalised
NewsThe Russian Government has nationalised the St Petersburg outer port of Bronka, which was built up from scratch by Fenix Investments and ope...
Baltic States’ ports change tack
NewsPorts in the Baltic States are exploiting opportunities and developing facilities that cater more effectively for growth in the transit trad...
Bronka under fire
NewsA Moscow district court has ruled that Fenix, the master developer of St Petersburg’s outer harbour of Bronka, should be nationalised....
Russian trans-Arctic plans
NewsThe Russian government has said it will invest the equivalent of US$200M in 2021-25 to develop Arctic transport infrastructure. RusAtom Carg...
St Petersburg on the move to Ust-Luga
NewsLast month, Andrey Bokarev, coowner of the oil products and coal terminals in Ust-Luga port, asked the country’s president, Vladimir Putin...
Crane tender for Novorossiysk
NewsNovorossiysk Commercial Seaport (NMTP) has invited bids for six new slewing portal cranes, in two phases – two multipurpose cranes with a ...
Vladivostok investments
NewsPacific Logistics, which operates in Vladivostok Sea Fisheries Port, has taken delivery of a new Konecranes Gottwald rail portal-mounted cra...