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Rosatom is Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, overseeing nuclear power generation, fuel supply, and related technologies. Established in 2007, it manages the country’s nuclear assets and exports reactors through its subsidiary, Atomstroyexport. Rosatom is a global leader in nuclear technology, involved in uranium mining, nuclear fuel production, and nuclear waste management. It also plays a major role in non-energy applications like nuclear medicine. As of recent years, Rosatom is actively expanding its international presence, with nuclear projects in countries such as India, Turkey, and Egypt.

Russia’s container market in Jan-May 2024 was 2.76 mln TEUs

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 26, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew 10% in January-May 2024, compared to the first four months of 2023 to 2.76...

Russia’s bombastic forecasts for Northern Sea Route

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 13, 2024 – Moscow, struggling to justify its fixation on the Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR), is throwing out more...

Russia fixated on the Arctic Northern Sea Route

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – There has been a flurry of announcements about Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR), indicating the...

Delo Group asked to build deep-water port in Arkhangelsk

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – The head of Russia’s Arctic Arkhangelsk region government Alexey Alsufiev asked TransContainer (part...

Russia’s strategic Korsakov port to be privatised

Korsakov, Russia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – Russia’s Far East Sea of Okhotsk Korsakov port (Sakhalin region) will be privatized by the founder of the...

DP World wants Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – DP World needs Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR), which is changing the rules of the game in...

Arkhangelsk port as China’s cargo transport hub

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 9, 2024 – Hard pressed by sanctions and isolated from the West, Russia is handing over its logistics “crown...

Russia as China’s vassal state

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) May 18, 2024 – Western sanctions are turning Russia into China’s vassal state and a raw-materials appendage of Beijing. The...

Update: Moscow to finance private firms to buy ports in Africa

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 29, 2024 – Russia is to buy ports in Africa to avoid sanctions restrictions for Russian exports, Roman Chekushov,...

Private Russian companies to buy ports abroad with state money

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 29, 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin wants the government to provide financial assistance to Russian companies...

Russia pushes for corridors with Asia to bypass sanctions

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 20, 2024 – Russia is pressing ahead with the creation of two new transport corridors linking it with Asia, seeking to...

FESCO expands its Indian shipping line

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) March 22, 2024 – Russia’s state-owned FESCO transport group has added new feeder ports – Kolkata, Tuticorin,...

Container train St. Petersburg-Novorossiysk by FESCO

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) March 18, 2024 – FESCO transport group launched a regular twice monthly railway container service FESCO Baltic...

Russia to dredge Northern Sea Route with Chinese help

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – The transportation of the dredging fleet from Southeast Asia through the Suez Canal to the Northern Sea...

FESCO adds ship to Indian service

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 30, 2024 – FESCO will add a second ship, FESCO Olga, to the FESCO Indian Line West (FIL-W), which operates...

Russia’s Isotope JSC expands sales to “friendly countries”

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 24, 2024 – Russia’s Isoptope JSC, part of state-owned Rosatom, has increased sales to “friendly...

Rosatom, DP World have increased the authorized capital of International Container Logistics

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 24, 2024 – Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and DP World have increased the authorized capital of...

Russia wants logistics centers and marine terminals abroad

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 23, 2024 – Hard pressed by Western sanctions and exclusion from the global logistics chain, Russia started talking...

Cargo traffic on Russia’s Northern Sea Route increases in 2023

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 18, 2024 – Cargo traffic on Russia’s Northern Sea Route was 36.25 million tons in 2023, according to...

FESCO transported almost 25,000 TEU with India, China in 2023

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – In 2023, FESCO Transport Group transported 24.,00 containers (TEU) as part of the regular sea...

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