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)
EBRD: sanctions, trade flows between Russia, Caucasus, Central Asia
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) February 27, 2023 – A number of economists from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have...
New ferry line Turkey-Sochi to help parallel import in Russia
Sochi, Russia (PortSEurope) February 26, 2023 – Port of Sochi is joining a race with otherRussian Black Sea ports to launch regular cargo lines to Turkey....
Russia’s Astrakhan region cargo turnover with Azerbaijan increases
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) February 23, 2023 – The cargo turnover between the Caspian Sea ports of Russian Astrakhan region (Astrakhan and Olya) and...
The EU sanctions watchdog has an easy target – Turkey
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – The Netherlands is proposing the creation of a centralised European Union (EU) sanctions watchdog to...
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...
Ruscon launches new liner service between Istanbul, St. Petersburg
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 21, 2023 – Multimodal transport operator Ruscon has launched a new liner service between Istanbul and the First...
Maersk to divest logistics sites in St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk
Copehagen, Denmark (PortSEurope) February 20, 2023 – A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has entered into an agreement to divest its logistics sites in...
New terminals and berths in Novorossiysk port
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) February 17, 2023 – Novaya Pristan company (part of OZK Group) is preparing the project for new berths in Russia’s Black...
Taman Bulk Cargo Terminal ready to process 2,071 coal wagons daily
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – Taman Bulk Cargo Terminal has confirmed it now has the capacity to process 2,071 coal wagons daily....
Gibraltar and Ship-to-Ship Transfers
Gibraltar Port Authority – Gibraltar and Ship-to-Ship Transfers – February 10, 2023 The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) would like clarify the legal...
Russian naval base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea
Port Sudan, Sudan (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – Sudan is to allow Russia to set up a naval base with the presence of up to 300 Russian troops, and...
TransContainer tries to fill in the container gap in Russia
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – TransContainer, intermodal container operator that manages the largest fleet of containers and flatcars...
Belarus to receive a terminal in St. Petersburg port, access to 19 others
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – Russia is to transfer the multifunctional marine transshipment complex Bronka, part of the Big Port...
Russia’s supply chains in the shackles of sanctions
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – Russia’s international road transport market in 2022 shrinked by -10% to 218 billion rubles (2.8 billion...
Russian ports handled almost 75 million tonnes of cargo in January
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 12, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January 2023 increased by 7.5% compared to the same month of last...
Russia’s Global Ports “summoned back home”
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) February 12, 2023 – Shareholders of Global Ports Investments, at an extraordinary general meeting on March 2, are...
Fivefold increase in cargo volumes from Turkey to Russia in 2022
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – Freight traffic from Turkey to Russia increased almost five times in 2022, according to experts...
Russia’s Far East ports are the bottleneck for oil export
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – Russia’s Far East ports are unable to handle the increased oil and oil-derived products volumes...
Kazakhstan will build large trade and logistics hubs with five neighbours
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – By 2026, Kazakhstan will build five border trade centers with neighbouring countries, the Ministry...
First stage of Russia’s first ammonia port in Taman to be ready by year-end
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2023 – 9.6 hectares of agricultural land were converted into industrial, energy and transport land to be used for...