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)
China to Russia delivery time increased to 60 days
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – Since the beginning of June, the average time for multimodal transportation from China to Russia (sea and...
Belarus multimodal Arctic terminal near Murmansk in 2028
Tuloma, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – The new multimodal terminal project for transshipment of Belarusian goods in Russia’s port of Lavna in Tuloma...
Table: Russian ports monthly cargo results, Oct 23-May 24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – The table below, prepared by Ports Europe, shows monthly cargo handling figures for Russian ports in millions...
Russian ports handled 373 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-May 2023
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May period decreased by 3.4% compared to the first five...
TransContainer to invest 1.6 mln rubles in lifting equipment
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 17, 2024 – In 2024, investments of PJSC TransContainer in the acquisition and modernization of lifting equipment at...
Russia’s Suek sells port assets
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 17, 2024 – The Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), the largest coal mining company in Russia, has sold all its port...
Joint Russia-Iran agency activities in Iran’s ports
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 15, 2024 – Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) wants to organise joint agency...
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’s Tuapse bulk terminal to be expanded
Tuapse, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – Russia’s Black Sea Tuapse Bulk Terminal (TBT, part of National Transport Company – NTK) will be...
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...
Iran wants to use INSTC to move coal from Russia to India
Mumbai, India (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – Iran has announced plans to transport coal from Russia to India via Iran’s railway network, said 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...
U.S. and EU-sanctioned friend of Putin to buy Makhachkala port
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) June 8, 2024 – The U.S., UK and EU-sanctioned Suleyman Abusaidovich, Russia-based billionaire, oligarch, and...
Global Ports, Leningrad Region plan Ust-Luga expansion
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 7, 2024 – Global Ports and the Government of the Leningrad Region have signed a cooperation agreement to...
Can the U.S. build a deepwater port in Libya’s Susah?
Susah, Libya (Ports Europe) June 3, 2024 – U.S. investment in Libya’s long-delayed Mediterranean Sea deepwater commercial port of Susah, one of the deepest...
Odesa ports exported 50 mln tonnes of cargo in 9 months
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 3, 2024 – The Black Sea corridor, created by Ukraine’s Navy on August 2023, has ensured the export of 50 million tonnes...
To build or not to build: Russian ports overseas
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 2, 2024 – The Russian government does not plan to support country’s private or state-owned companies investments in...