On August 8-14, Passenger Port St. Petersburg handled 12 cruise ships and 15,049 passengers, the port operator Marine Facade said. The total stopover, berth time was 22 ship/day, total amount of operations per passenger was 83,819. During the stopover 5 helicopters made landing / take-off at the port’s helipad. The passenger terminal handled 6 cruise…
Freight throughput at Primorsky Krai-based Port of Nakhodka in January-July rose by 12.8% YoY, to 13,592,000 tons, the Authority of Primorsky Krai & Eastern Arctic Seaports said. Shipments of dry bulk cargo increased by 24.1% to 9,708,000 tons. Petroleum products volume shrank by 8.3% to 3,8 million tons. The Port of Nakhodka is located on…
On August 8-14, the export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 715.6 thousand tons up from 411.2 thousand tons shipped in the previous week. In particular, the wheat shipments totaled 634.4 thousand tons, barley – 65.9 thousand tons, and peas – 15.3 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
First Solar, Inc. announced that it had booked 160 mW DC of photovoltaic module sales in Turkey in the first half of 2016. The orders were placed by Basariarge Enerji A.S. and Zorlu Enerji. Zorlu Enerji, a subsidiary of Zorlu Holding has contracted First Solar to supply 100 mW DC of its high performance Series…
As of August 15, Belarus harvested more than 6,225,700 million tons of grain, the Agriculture and Food Ministry informed. Minsk Oblast is the leader with 1.6 million tons of grain so far. Brest Oblast has harvested 1.1 million tons, Gomel Oblast and Grodno Oblast – over 1 million tons each. Mogilev Oblast has cropped 852,500…
As of August 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 33.7 million tons in bunker weight, up by 17.1% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced. According to the announcement, agrarians harvested grains throughout the areas of 8.8 million ha, or 29.3% of…
Argentina is considering the possibility of implementing nuclear power projects with Russia, the country’s Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra said. She also said that Russian investments in Argentinian projects could be implemented in the sphere of ports and logistics infrastructure. (Prime/Business World Magazine)