E.ON Connecting Energies LLC (ECE) – a joint venture of Unipro PJSC and E.ON Connecting Energies GmbH – launched an 800 kW combined heat and power plant (CHP) at the METRO shopping centre in Nizhny Novgorod. The CHP will heat the store and meet a portion of its electricity needs. The ECE experts developed a…
As of September 1, cargo traffic within the Azov-Don Basin of Russia’s inland water ways climbed by 4% YoY, to 6,207,000 tons, says the Administration of Azov-Don Basin. In the reported period, transportation of heavy fuel oil fell by 8.8%, to 1,954,000 tons, that of sulfur went up by 19% to 1,002,000 tons, of diesel…
Bridgestone Corp. plans to launch a 12.5 billion ruble tire plant in the city of Ulyanovsk in September, the government of the region said in a report. “Bridgestone’s first Russian and CIS tire plant will be launched on September 13, on the territory of industrial park Zavolzhye in Ulyanovsk. Deliveries of the produced goods, radial…
The Russian government can raise about 700 billion rubles from privatization of the oil major Rosneft, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said. “I think that Rosneft has always been a priority because it is larger, more expensive, has more value to the budget. This is about 700 billion rubles which we can receive this way…
The passenger traffic of Russian airlines can decline by up to 10% in 2016, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said. “The domestic market has increased significantly. The growth was about 6%, according to the data as of now. But still, the correction will be up to 10% due to a catastrophic fall of international traffic”, Sokolov…
Implementation of Russia’s controversial package of anti-terrorism laws, obliging telecom and Internet operators to store metadata, content of users’ talks and correspondence, will give an additional impetus for development of the domestic industry, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said. “I positively see (the laws), because we will have a stimulus to develop our industries…
Uralkali, one of the world’s largest potash producers, announces the key decisions taken by its Board of Directors at a meeting on September 1. The board has approved of the list of candidates to be elected to the Board of Directors at Uralkali’s Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), to be held on September 27: Dmitry Konyaev,…