Murmansk
Murmansk, located in northwest Russia, is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle. It is a major port on the Barents Sea, remaining ice-free year-round due to the Gulf Stream. The city’s harsh Arctic climate features long, dark winters and short, cool summers. The port handles diverse cargo, including coal, oil, and fish, and plays a critical role in Russia’s Arctic and global trade. It also supports the Russian Northern Fleet.
Kazakhstan, world’s largest landlocked country, is shopping around for ports
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 5, 2024 – Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country, with a Caspian coastline and ports but no access to...
Table: Russian ports monthly cargo results H1 2024
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – The table below, prepared by Ports Europe, shows monthly cargo handling figures for Russian ports in millions...
Update: Russia’s Suek, under U.S. sanctions, sells all its ports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – The Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), the largest coal mining company in Russia, has sold all its port...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Sanctioned Russian gas exported via ports as fertilisers
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2024 – Without buyers for its sanctioned and with declining value gas, Russia is trying to export it converted into...
Russia plans a new Arctic deep-water port
Belomorsk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Forced by Western sanctions, transport connection issues with its Black and Caspian seas ports and...
Table: Russian ports monthly cargo results, Oct 23-Apr 24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 20, 2024 – The table below prepared by Ports Europe, shows monthly cargo handling figures for Russian ports in millions...
Russian ports handled 288.4 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Apr’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 20, 2024 – The cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-April period decreased by 4.3% compared to the first four...
Russia as China’s vassal state
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) May 18, 2024 – Western sanctions are turning Russia into China’s vassal state and a raw-materials appendage of Beijing. The...
Update: After Murmansk Belarus wants Russia’s Arkhangelsk port
Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Western sanctions-hit Belarus is intensifying its efforts to use the sea ports of fellow global pariah Russia....
Russia pushes for corridors with Asia to bypass sanctions
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 20, 2024 – Russia is pressing ahead with the creation of two new transport corridors linking it with Asia, seeking to...