Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, as a country located in both Eastern Europe and Northwest Asia. It has seaports on the Azov and Black Sea. The largest is the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014. Russia now controls the Azov Sea and occupies the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol. It has also blockaded all Ukrainian Black Sea ports which are currently closed to all shipping. (Updated 24.06.2022)
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...
Update: Seaport cargo in Russia in Jan-Feb’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 17, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian sea ports in January-February 2024 decreased by 0.5% compared to the same period of...
NYT: Russia’s tries to pivot away from the West for good
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 16, 2024 – For centuries, trade with Europe was the main pillar of Russia’s economy. The war in Ukraine ended that,...
Russia dreams of global “sovereign logistics”
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 16, 2024 – Russia, heavily restricted in the use of European and American ports and logistics services due to Western...
Russian ports handled 139.6 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Feb’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 13, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-February 2024 was 139.6 million tonnes, 0.5% less than the same...
Update: Russia’s railways are the bottleneck for its Black Sea ports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2024 – The capacity of Russia’s Black and Azov Sea ports may increase to 400 million tonnes by 2030, Minister...
Russia’s railways lack enough capacity to Black Sea ports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 9, 2024 – The capacity of Russia’s Black and Azov Sea ports is four times bigger than the transport capacity of the...
Gibraltar Port Authority bans Russian ships
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has issued a port circular entitled ” Russain vessels banned from...
More drugs seized in St. Petersburg port
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – Some 11 kg of cocaine were seized in Russia’s Big Port of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea, the...
Dredging of Azov Sea’s port of Taganrog
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – RosMorRechFlot, the Russian state agency for river and sea transport, is looking for a contractor to dredge...
Turkey’s Dörtyol terminal ends oil imports from Russia
Iskenderun, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Dörtyol terminal, operated by Global Terminal Services (GTS), has ended imports of Russian crude...
Russian navy builds a new base in Caspian Makhachkala
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Russian navy, exposed and vulnerable in the Black Sea, is building a new base for its ships in the...
Russia’s problems with dredging in Arctic and elsewhere
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 2, 2024 – “Definitely bad” is how Nikolay Tyrtyshny, General Director of Rostov central design bureau Stapel that...
Putin: Soviet-style transport and logistics promises
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – In true Soviet style, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Russia‘s Federal Assembly, the...
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...
Russia wants a Sochi-Trabzon ferry in the Black Sea
Sochi, Russia (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Isolated Russia has plans to launch a cargo-passenger ferry from its Black Sea port of Sochi to...
Irtysh River as a sanctions-busting route China-Russia
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Under pressure from Russia, Kazakhstan is planning a multimodal transit corridor...
Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port sanctioned by Canada
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – Russia’s Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port (NSTP) company has been included in the sanctions imposed...
Russia’s total container market in January, in 2022 and 2023
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew by 13.3% in January compared to the same month in 2023 to 518,000 TEUs,...
Delayed ammonia terminal in Taman only in test mode in June
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – Additional land plots have been included in the boundaries of Russia’s Black Sea port of Taman. They are...