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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.

Reference – Russia’s Arctic and Far East ports projects

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – The past year consolidated the trends formed in 2022 (when Russia was hit by Western sanctions for its...

FESCO grows fast aided by sanctions

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 30, 2023 – The export of vegetable oils and grain by FESCO Agro service in 2023 increased more than eight times...

FESCO launched its line El Dekheila-Novorossiysk

Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 27, 2023 – Deprived of opportunities to operate in Europe due to Western sanctions, FESCO, one of the largest...

Update: Russia’s Northern Sea Route only for Russia

(Adds comments from Konstantin Grinevich after paragraph 3) St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe), December 1, 2023 – The Northern Sea Route (NSR,...

Russia’s Northern Sea Route – only for Russia

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe), December 1, 2023 – The Northern Sea Route (NSR, SevMorPut) is unlikely to compete with the southern route through...

FESCO plans container feeder line in Africa

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Deprived of opportunities to operate in Europe due to Western sanctions, FESCO, one of the largest...

China’s increasing influence on the Northern Sea Route

Hellerup, Denmark (Ports Europe) November 17, 2023 – As Russia attempts to find ways to alleviate the impact of Western sanctions, and find alternative...

Rosatom takes over FESCO to create a shipping corridor along Northern Sea Route

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 14, 2023 – Desperate times for Russia lead to desperate measures. Under pressure from Western sanctions, Russian...

DP World helps Russia develop container shipping in the Arctic

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) October 27, 2023 – Dubai-headquartered logistics and ports company DP World brazenly ignored Western sanctions against...

Sanctions force Russia to buy foreign-made cargo ships

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – Forced by Western sanctions and the inability of local shipyards to construct new vessels fast enough, Russian...

In sanctions-hit Russia: Comms, cranes, dredging, containers come from China

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) April 3, 2023 – Western sanctions are slowly but surely turning Russia into China’s vassal state (and a raw-materials...

Rosatom plans dredging in North Sea Route area

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2023 – The total volume of dredging and hydraulic engineering operations in the waters of the Northern Sea...

The United States imposes sanctions on Russian naval entities

Washington, United States (PortSEurope) December 26, 2022 – The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on 10 Russian naval entities this time over Russian operations...

In Russia, in one day, 400 ships needed became 400 ships ordered

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 12, 2022 – Russian officials, desperately trying to please President Vladimir Putin and to feed good news to the...

Russian-Chinese Intergovernmental Commission on Investment Cooperation meets

First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov and Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Han Zheng chaired the ninth meeting of...

Rosatom takes stake in Delo Group

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) August 11, 2022 – The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM, has exercised an option to increase its equity stake...

A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to sell stake in Russian port operator Global Ports Investments

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) March 11, 2022 – It has been reported that Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to divest its 30.75% stake in...

Cargo volume via Northern Sea Route was 35 mln tons in 2021

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The cargo volume on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2021 was 34.85 million tons. This is nearly 2...

Russia’s DeloPorts starts using renewable energy

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Since January 2022 DeloPorts, part of the Delo Group, has started using electricity generated at...

NUTEP container terminal sets a terminal record

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 9, 2021 – On December 7, 2021, the NUTEP container terminal handled four container ships at its berths...

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