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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.

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...

United Shipbuilding Corporation to build four vessels in Astrakhan

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) February 7, 2023 – United Shipbuilding Corporation will build four multipurpose dry bulk / container carriers in...

Belarus wants faster creation of its own ports in Russia

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – Hard pressed by western sanctions, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, demanded faster construction...

Russia plans 2023 investment in ports of 145.4 billion rubles

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 22, 2022 – Russia plans investment of 145.4 billion rubles (€1.8 billion) in its ports in 2023. In 2022,...

Russia’s ports cargo handling statistics for first nine months of 2022

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 22, 2022 – Russia’s ports cargo handling decreased by 0.5% in January-September 2022, compared to the same period...

Russia opens more special economic zones

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 21, 2022 – Hard pressed by western sanctions and facing the exodus of western companies, Russia announced the...

Sanctions-hit Russia redirects cargo transshipment to the South

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 7, 2022 – Sanctions-hit Russia is redirects cargo transshipment to the South and replacing containers with oil....

Sanctions hit Russia seeks India’s help for the North-South transport corridor

Olya, Russia (Ports Europe) September 21, 2022 – Sanctions hit Russia is seeking India’s help for the North-South transport corridor. It sees India a major...

Belarussia cargo is redirected to the Russia’s Caspian Sea

Olya, Russia (Ports Europe) September 11, 2022 – Belarusian is redirecting cargo to the Russia’s Caspian Sea ports due to international sanctions. Huge...

Moscow fixated on Astrakhan port as it looks to use INSTC to bypass sanctions

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 20, 2022 – The Astrakhan region of Russia has presented its ambitious port special economic zone (SEZ) project...

Russia’s President Putin calls for Caspian Sea port development

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 12, 2022 – Hard pressed by western sanctions for his invasion in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged in...

Port of Hamburg ends handling of Russian containers

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 7, 2022 – On March 1, 2021, container terminal operators HHLA and Eurogate announced that all container handling to...

Total cargo turnover of Russian seaports in 2021 was 835.2 million tons, up +1.7%

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 20, 2022 – Total cargo turnover of Russian seaports in 2021 was 835.2 million tons, an increase of +1.7% compared...

Port of Novorossiysk again with the highest cargo turnover among Russia’s ports with 104.79 million tonnes in Jan-Sep’21

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) October 29, 2021 – Cargo turnover of Russia’s seaports during the first nine months of 2021 was 622.05 million tonnes...

Top Russian ports – a review

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) October 20, 2021 – There are 67 seaports in Russia located on 12 seas, from the Black and Baltic to the Pacific and...

Russian seaports see cargo turnover of the in January-August 2021 up +1.6%

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) October 13, 2021 – Cargo turnover of the seaports of Russia in January-August 2021 was 552.8 million tons, up by 1.6%...

Russian minister comments on the development of water transport in 2020

TASS published a series of materials on the preliminary results of the development of the water transport sector in 2020, which were described by the Deputy...

Russia seeks strategic port capacity incease

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 12, 2020 – One of the main documents defining the strategy for the development of the transport industry, the...

FAS has prepared a draft order on investment collection in Russian ports

The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) has prepared a draft order on the approval of investment tax rates in Russian ports for 2021-2023. The corresponding...

Rosmorport port fees down 7% in first nine months 2020

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) October 8, 2020 – In January-September 2020, Rosmorport saw its revenue from port fees decrease by 7%, or by 1.1 billion...

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