Crews of the Caspian Flotilla ships and radiotechnical service held joint exercise on detecting surface and aerial targets, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. Podsolnukh, over-the-horizon radar, was operated during the exercise. Podsolnukh is capable of detecting naval surface and aerial targets at different altitudes within line-of-sight distance and beyond the horizon. Dagestan and…
In January-August the port of Vyborg handled 808,900 tons of cargo, down by 18% YoY, says the Baltic Sea Ports Administration. Transshipment of dry bulk cargo fell by 10% to 675,100 tons including 344,000 tons of mineral fertilizers (-19%) and 303,800 tons of coal and coke (+3%). Transshipment of dry loose cargo fell by 80%…
The Russian Myasishchev M-55 high-altitude geophysical research aircraft completed European stratosphere studies. As part of the StratoClim project in which scientists from 26 European research institutes are participating, the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) Stratosphere & Troposphere (S &T) Radar Center, also known as the Advanced Center for Atmospheric Radar Research (ACARR) has…
In January-August Vostochny Port JSC handled 15.8 million tons of cargo, up by 2.4% YoY. According to the stevedore’s statistics, coal exports in August totaled 2.24 million tons. From the beginning of 2016, the company handled 349 bulk carriers including 49 vessels loaded in August. Vostochny Port JSC (Primorsky Territory) is Russia’s largest publicly available…
Russia’s Energy Ministry favors stability in taxation of the oil and gas industry, Deputy Minister Kirill Molodtsov said. “In fact, the industry first of all needs stability. It is important for us to ensure the level of production in 2020, 2022, and 2027. In this sense, the energy strategy is already at the final stage…
Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight has introduced a temporary ban on imports of vegetables and fruits of high phytosanitary risk from Egypt starting from September 16. The ban will be in effect until Egypt takes efficient measures to ensure phytosanitary safety of products supplied to Russia, the watchdog said. The regulator said…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of September 14, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 7.453 million tons, down by 2.7% YoY (7.659 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 6.316 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…