Charges at Russian seaports
NewsRussia’s federal seaport agency RosMorPort has started collecting ‘investment dues’ at the country’s 13 largest seaports. The order ...
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 ...
Kaliningrad ro-ro terminal contract
NewsRosmorport has awarded Inter RAO-Engineering (IRE) a US$81M contract to complete the Pionersky ro-pax terminal in the Russian exclave of Kal...
Flats for Norilsk Nickel
NewsRussia’s United Wagon Company (UWC) has signed a contract for an undisclosed number of 40ft universal flat cars, type 13-6851-04, with exi...
Vostochnaya Stevedoring Co gearing up
NewsGlobal Ports Investments, Russia’s biggest container handler, is continuing to invest in its Russian Pacific operation, Vostochnaya Steved...
Rosmorport incorporation
NewsThe Russian Government is considering converting Rosmorport, the federal agency responsible for seaport infrastructure development, into a l...
Major Russian seaport nationalised?
NewsHas Moscow used a labour strike as a pretext to take control of Vladivostok port?...
Russian ports under fire for lack of internal competition
NewsRussia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has put together a list of the country’s ports where it believes there is no internal compet...
SMM faces penalty payment to Russian government ministry
NewsRussia’s Ministry of Industrial Policy and Trade (MinPromTorg) is looking to recover some US$3.5M in penalty payments from SMM (SevMorMont...
Paperless first for First
NewsFollowing successful testing at the Turukhtanny customs post in June this year, Global Ports’ First Container Terminal (FCT) in St Petersb...
St Petersburg investments
NewsGlobal Ports, Russia’s biggest container terminal operator, has acquired a Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane for its Petrolesport (PLP...
Berlin sees new rail wagons launched
NewsRussia’s United Wagon Company (UWC) chose InnoTrans 2018 in Berlin in September to launch a European standard gauge (1,435mm), articulated...
Ust-Luga gearing up
NewsYug-2, the multipurpose terminal operator in Russia’s Port of Ust-Luga, will shortly install a 50t SWL RMG for containers and general carg...
Rules on roubles
NewsRussia’s federal government has endorsed a draft bill that would require port stevedoring services to be charged only in roubles....
Russia looks to increase NEA traffic
NewsAccording to a report by Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry, freight volumes in the Russian Arctic Ocean could rise to 80 Mtpa by 2030...