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Urgent dredging to start in Baku port, Caspian Sea shrinks

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – Dredging will start in the coming days in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea port of Baku, which will allow access...

Update: Makhachkala port partly reopens after dredging

Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The oil terminal of Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala reopened after emergency dredging to...

Update: Belarus exported 18 mln tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – About 18 million tonnes of Belarusian cargo were transported through 20 Russian seaports in 2023, the local...

Belarus exported 15 million tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – The total transhipment of Belarusian export cargo through Russian ports by the end of 2023 was about 15...

Russia’s Makhachkala port blocked by silt

Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Since the beginning of December, heavy winds blocked the dry cargo harbour channel of Russia’s port of...

FESCO grows fast aided by sanctions

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 30, 2023 – The export of vegetable oils and grain by FESCO Agro service in 2023 increased more than eight times...

FESCO launched its line El Dekheila-Novorossiysk

Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 27, 2023 – Deprived of opportunities to operate in Europe due to Western sanctions, FESCO, one of the largest...

Russia lost the Black Sea and one more ship,Ukrainian ports busy

Feodosia, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 26, 2023 – Russian Navy’s Novocherkassk large landing ship, berthed in Feodosia port on the southern coast of...

Russian ports handled 811.9 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov 23

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – Cargo handled by Russian seaports in the January-November period increased by 5.7% compared to the first 11...

Rasht-Astara railway construction for INSTC corridor in 2024

Tehran, Itan (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – It has been announced that the construction of the 163-km Rasht-Astara railway in Northern Iran will...

Russia’s Volga-Caspian Canal dredged to 4.5 m depth, but…

Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) December 8, 2023 – After heavy dredging, involving 17 dredgers and a fleet of 40 support vessels, the draft on the...

Belarus, Russia free economic zones plan cooperation

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) December 7, 2023 – The management of the free economic zone (SEZ) “Brest” in Bealrus and the special...

Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea – meeting

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) December 5, 2023 – The Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea is a forum...

Russia’s sanctions-busting trade routes stumble

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – The two “secret weapons” against Western sanctions affecting Russian cargo transportation – the...

Update: Russia’s Northern Sea Route only for Russia

(Adds comments from Konstantin Grinevich after paragraph 3) St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe), December 1, 2023 – The Northern Sea Route (NSR,...

Russia’s Northern Sea Route – only for Russia

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe), December 1, 2023 – The Northern Sea Route (NSR, SevMorPut) is unlikely to compete with the southern route through...

FESCO plans container feeder line in Africa

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Deprived of opportunities to operate in Europe due to Western sanctions, FESCO, one of the largest...

North-South corridor is sanctioned Russia’s distant dream

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 26, 2023 – The development of the International North-South Transport Corridor – INSTC will significantly...

The North-South is the poor relative of Russia’s international cargo corridors

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 24, 2023 – The cargo transportation along the three main international transport corridors (ITC) that pass via...

TransContainer starts new export routes for timber

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 23, 2023 – PJSC TransContainer has started exporting timber using new export routes. This includes to China via...

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