Russia and Bangladesh have signed an intergovernmental agreement on the allocation of a state loan to finance the main stage of the construction of the Ruppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, Atomstoyexport (ASE) said in a press release. “Financial and legal conditions have been created for the project of the construction of NPP Ruppur. For…
The efficiency of Russia’s air defense system in the northwestern strategic area has grown 1.5 times over the past three years, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. “The district troops have been reequipped and received new warplanes and the S-300V4, S-400, Buk-M2 air defense missile systems, the Pantsir-S1 combined short to medium range surface-to-air missile…
Rosneft Finance S.A. (a subsidiary of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft) has redeemed second series Eurobonds worth $1 billion, the company said in a statement. The Eurobonds were issued by the former TNK-BP group in 2006, with a maturity term of 10 years and the coupon rate of 7.5% per annum. “Maximization of profit at…
FSUE “Rosmorport” and “MSC GROUP”, Italian holding company, discussed the “Construction of Sea Terminal in the City of Pionersky” project. The meeting, held on July 19, in Genoa (Italy), was attended by Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport Viktor Olersky, Deputy Head…
On July 4 to 17, the Arkhangelsk Branch Ice Pilots escorted a caravan consisting of 15 vessels of the Jan De Nul company dredger fleet to the Gulf of Ob of the Kara Sea, says Rosmorport. The icebreaker escort distance amounted to 1200 nautical miles. The Point of Destination of these dredgers was the seaport…
The Sommers, lead ship of TSHD 1000 design, built for FSUE Rosmorport, commenced operations at the seaport of Makhachkala on July 23. Rosmorport says the dredger will perform the most urgent maintenance dredging to debottleneck the access channel and the basin of the port’s oil harbor. The work on dredging to the design depth will…
After the high results of 2015, Moldavian farmers decreased sunflower sowing area for the new harvest of 2016/2017, but not because of the lowering interest in this crop. The reason for the lower area was essential increase in sowing material prices after high crop losses in 2015/2016, which also preconditioned the necessity to import expensive…