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Russia is set to begin dismantling the nuclear icebreaker Sibir at the Nerpa Shipyard north of Murmansk in 2017, representing the first time ever that such an atomic vessel has been broken down.

The Polar Code will come into force on 1 January 2017. The conference was dedicated to the specifics of implementing the Polar Code in Russia and became a platform for a productive dialogue between the representatives of research centres, shipping companies and RS.

Ust-Luga Commercial Seaport signed a cooperation agreement with German Port of Kiel, aiming to increase the turnover of both and reduce the time of delivery. The document targeted at development of trade and economic relations between Russia and Germany.

DP World and the Summa GroupRussia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore investment opportunities in ports, special economic zones and inland logistics facilities in the Russian Federation.

  A Russian group of nuclear technicians will in November head to Italy for training on a vessel called the Itarus that would be able to lift sunken nuclear reactors and other radioactive litter scuttled by the Soviet Navy in Arctic waters over decades, various news agencies reported. The vessel will also be used to transport less unconventionally decommissioned reactors to dismantlement points – a lingering issue in cleaning up Northwest Russia’s Cold War nuclear legacy. No cost for the new vessel was released by Russian news agencies and it remains unclear whether it is a donation toward multilateral nuclear cleanup efforts agreed to 12 years ago. Rosatom’s press office was unavailable for comment. Anatoly Zakharchyov, head of Russian nuclear state corporation Rosatom’s engineering division for complex submarine dismantlement, told the REGNUM Russian news service, further said that Russian technicians had just returned from Italy where they observed preliminaries on the construction of the new ship. The crew going in November will learn how to operate the floating-dock type vessel, which could be put to use retrieving many of the enormous finds of Naval reactors, radioactive waste containers, and even nuclear submarines that Russian Navy sources told Bellona were scuttled ...

  Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed off on a comprehensive project that will further the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), the press center of RF Government informed.  NSR is the shortest route connecting Europe with the Far East, with the Asia-Pacific region, with the western part of North America. According to the Deputy Head of the Cabinet Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Russia issues around 600 permits annually to transport cargo via the route, with around 4 million tons of cargo delivered each year. However, Russia wants to transport much more cargo than that. “The potential estimated for the next 15 years – the time frame of the new comprehensive plan – is more than 80 million tons, that’s a twenty times increase in the volume of cargo,” said Mr. Dvorkovich. The prime minister noted that it will exceed the volume of traffic that existed during the Soviet era. “This goal should be mandatory,” Mr. Medvedev said. According to Mr. Dvorkovich, all the necessary regulatory framework for the project has already been formed. He said the project includes six major components, such as navigation and hydrographic support. In addition, there is no fully functioning system to regulate maritime traffic and ensure the protection of ...

Vitaly Klyuev held a meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of Netherlands

Vitaly Klyuev, the official Russian candidate for the IMO Secretary-General post held a presentation on the current IMO issues

Vitaly Klyuev has taken part in the opening ceremony of the 48th meeting of the PSC of the Paris MoU

Russia Names Nominee for IMO Secretary General