Tag: Russia

Russia should begin regular container shipments via the Northern Sea Route across in 2022, believes Russian President Vladimir Putin.

DP World has agreed to jointly study with FESCO, Russia’s largest intermodal transport operator to develop a new container berth in the far east of Russia.

FESCO and Atomenergoprom plan to establish a transport and logistics hub at the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port, within the framework of the project by the Rosatom on the Euro-Asian transit of container cargo.

On 1 September 2021, PAO Sovcomflot, SMART LNG and Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center entered into a trilateral agreement to cooperate on the development of a ship repair cluster in the Russia’s Far East.

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction is 99% complete, the operating company said on Wednesday, while media reports say the Russian-led project is expected to be finished on August 23.

Russia has opened a criminal investigation on the spill, which occurred during loading of the Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Symphony near the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, on 7 August. 

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has successfully delivered Russia’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunkering vessel.

Russia wants to boost annual transit volumes on the Arctic Northern Sea Route from 1.3m tons in 2020 to 30m tons in 2030.

A general cargo ship struck one of its sister vessels, owned by the same company, while maneuvering at Taganrog Port, Russia, Azov sea, in the morning hours of 7 July. 

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping along with Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) joined their forces to further advance the safety and efficiency of new LNG transportation technologies.