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)
Taman ammonia terminal to receive first ship in November
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) September 27, 2024 – The long-delayed TogliattiAzot terminal for transshipment of ammonia and fertilisers in Russia’s Black...
FESCO forced to work with China’s Tank Container Alliance
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 26, 2024 – FESCO, the largest transport group in Russia, owned by the Kremlin-controlled giant RosAtom...
Pyotr Ivanov appointed president of FESCO
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 25, 2024 – Pyotr Ivanov has been appointed President of FESCO transport group. He replaces Arkady Korostelev....
Ruscon launches China-Moscow rail cargo service
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 24, 2024 – Ruscon, part of Delo Group, has launched a new railway service for cargo delivery from China to...
Sanctions force Russia to develop Vladivostok port too
Vladivostok, Russia (Ports Europe) September 23, 2024 – Forced by Western sanctions, Russia is pushing for the development of its Far Eastern ports. In...
Sanctions require Russia’s Primorye corridors to China
Posyet, Russia (Ports Europe) September 23, 2024 – Western sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 require Moscow to...
Russia’s total containers’ market in Jan-Aug’24 was 4.39 mln TEUs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 22, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew 8.1% in January-August 2024, compared to the first eight months of 2023...
New Russian missile strike on Odesa port
Odesa, Russia (Ports Europe) September 21, 2024 – A Russian strike with an Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missile on September 20 damaged the...
Dnevnik: Russian “floating petrol stations” off Bulgaria’s coast
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) September 21, 2024 – Russian tankers Nikolay Veliki and Nikolay Gamayunov are refuelling ships leaving Bulgaria’s Black...
Ship hit by a Russian missile last week docks at the Port of Constanta
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 20, 2024 – The ship hit by a Russian missile last week has docked at the Romanian port of Constanta on...
Russian ports: 446,600 TEUs in August, 3.65 mln TEUs in Jan-Aug’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 19, 2024 – Russian ports handled 446,600 TEUs in August 2024, an increase of 5.7% or 24,000 TEUs compared to...
Russian navy escapes from Novorossiysk, but where to?
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Russian Black Sea navy is on the run again, leaving the country’s largest port of...
Russia’s Kandalaksha as an ammonia export port?
Kandalaksha, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – In a desperate move, Russia’s Arctic White Sea port of Kandalaksha, Murmansk region, was added to...
Collapse of railway cargo to Russia’s Murmansk port
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – Railway cargo shipments to Russia’s Arctic Port of Murmansk (part of Port Alliance) decreased by a...
Russia’s Quark fund invests in Arctic Vitino port along NSR
Beloye More, Russia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Russia’s closed-end mutual investment fund Quark became a 50% co-owner of Nord Star, the...
GIS: All eyes on Russia’s Northern Sea Route
Schaan, Liechtenstein (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – The missile attacks in the Red Sea are a reminder of the vulnerability of commercial...
Russian ports handled 596.2 mln tonnes of cargo Jan-Aug 2024
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 15, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-August 2024 decreased by 3.1% compared to the first eight...
Antiquated railway and road infrastructure in Russia
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 15, 2024 – Russia’s attempt to bypass Western sanctions by redirecting its trade towards the East (China) has...
Over 100 sea mines in Black Sea found – U.S. Navy
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) September 13, 2024 – The U.S. Navy has reported that over 100 sea mines have been located by US military reconnaissance...
Update: Russian missile hits ship with Ukrainian grain in Black Sea
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 13, 2024 – Russia’s strategic bombers hit a Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged bulk carrier with a missile during...