In January-August Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port OJSC handled 1,004,100 tons of cargo (down by 9.4% YoY), the company says. Transshipment of import cargo totaled 15,200 tons (-37.4%), exports – down almost 2-fold to 182,200 tons, short-sea traffic – up by 3.2% to 762,100 tons. Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port OJSC is a multi-profile stevedoring company of…
In the 2015/2016 marketing year rapeseed gross production in Russia reached slightly more than 1000 KMT. This result was obtained in conditions of decreasing planted area for the second consecutive season to 1038 thousand ha compared with record 1326 thousand ha in the 2013/2014 marketing year. In addition to acreage reduction, the productivity has also…
As of September 5, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 34.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 27.7 million ha), or 73% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 95.6 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of August 31, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 5.366 million tons, down by 7% YoY (5.781 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 4.494 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…
Russian power producer T Plus, which saw a police search and a CEO detention on Tuesday over a corruption case, has appointed First Deputy CEO Andrei Vagner as acting CEO, the company said in a statement. Chairman of T Plus board of directors Yevgeny Olkhovik and CEO Boris Vainzikher were detained on Monday on suspicion…
Russia’s Reserve Fund, which protects the budget against falls in oil prices, decreased by 15.7% in August to $32.2 billion as of September 1, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. The National Wealth Fund, designed to secure the country’s pension system, rose by 0.7% to $72.71 billion. In ruble terms, the Reserve Fund fell…
In August 29 – September 4, export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 637.1 thousand tons, against 203.1 thousand tons shipped in the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments totaled 595.2 thousand tons, barley – 26.7 thousand tons, and peas – 15.2 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)