In January-August Port Kavkaz handled 19,232,000 tons (up by 12% YoY), Harbour Master of port Kavkaz Yevgeny Tuzinkevich said. Off-harbor transshipment complex handled 5,511,000 tons of export cargo (down by 21% YoY). Transshipment of oil products increased by 53% to 8,657,000 tons, sulfur and mineral fertilizers – by 112% to 2,193,000 tons, grain dropped by…
In January-August the Freeport of Riga handled 23,872,900 tons of cargo (down by 10.8% YoY). Coal transshipment fell by 19.2% to 7,963,300 tons, oil products – by 18.5% to 5,916,500 tons, wood pellets – by 10% to 387,000 t, ore grew by 79.4% to 269,100 tons. The port’s container throughput climbed by 4.7% to 248,359…
In January-August the Port of Tallinn handled 13.97 million tons of cargo (down by 8.2% YoY). According to the Port Authorities, transshipment of containers and liquid bulk cargo dropped by 5.5% (131,172 TEUs) and 22% (7.04 million tons) accordingly. Transshipment of loose bulk cargo increased by 35.5% (2.40 million tons), Ro-Ro – by 5% (2.99…
Turkmenistan is increasing the electricity supply to neighboring Afghanistan, said Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in his message to the participants of the international energy conference in Ashgabat. “The high-voltage power transmission line, stretching from the Mary state power plant to the border with Afghanistan through the Atamyrat city, has improved the quality of electricity supply…
Construction of a power line of 500 kilovolts is under consideration for ensuring the electricity supply from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. The route of the new electricity grid will run in parallel to the route of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. Moreover, work is underway on constructing Mary – Sarakhs – Mashhad (Turkmenistan-Iran) overhead power transmission line…
Russia’s state-owned Rosneftegaz, which holds the government’s stake in oil major Rosneft, has applied to the Economic Development Ministry with a proposal not to change a tax burden on the oil industry over the next three years. This is not a proposal to suspend an oil tax maneuver. Rosneftegaz seeks that stabilization of the tax…
On September 5-11, Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg received 8 cruise ships with 8961 passengers. The total berth time of the ships is 16 ship-days, total amount of passenger operations – 66011. Services provided to ships: fresh water bunkering – 2093 cubic meters, garbage collection – 90 cubic meters, waste-waters reception – 700 cubic meters.…