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…
PJSC LUKOIL has commissioned Phase I of the auxiliary power supply plant in the Republic of Komi. The 100 MW power plant is designed to satisfy the growing need in power at the Denisovsky license area and will increase utilization of associated petroleum gas. The project, developed and implemented by PJSC LUKOIL’s wholly owned subsidiary…
Ferry service linking Korsakov (Sakhalin) and Wakkanai (Hokkaido) will start operating on August 1, 2016. Cross border transportation of passengers between the islands will be resumed by the order of the Sakhalin Region Governor, says the press center of the regional government. Passenger ship Penguin-33 was chartered in Singapore for that purpose. The Japanese side…
On the results of Inspection Commission work, FSUE “Rosmorport” obtained Certificate No. 16.01867.315 dated 29.04.2016 of compliance of the Kandalaksha Bay with requirements for VTS of the 2nd category, says Rosmorport. The Construction of the Kandalaksha Bay VTS was completed in 2015. In accordance with the resolution No. 51-RU51503000-03-2015 dated 11.02.2015 of the Committee of…
In several following months, Russia will continue increasing the export shipments of grains, which will reach their peak in August-September period, the Deputy Director of the strategic management department at Rusagrotrans CJSC Igor Pavensky announced on July 26. Due to the course of harvesting campaign, the export volumes of grains will continue growing, and in…
Experts of Rusagrotrans CJSC increased their estimations of the general grain harvest in Russia in the current year to 113 million tons, as opposed to 110 million tons of the previous forecast, the Deputy Director of the strategic management department at Rusagrotrans CJSC Igor Pavensky declared on July 27. According to the analyst, the harvesting…
In the first half of 2016 JSC “Container terminal Saint-Petersburg” (CTSP, member of UCL Holding) handled 288,2 thousand TEU, exceeding the last-year result by 66,5%, says CTSP. Import volume increased by 53,5% YoY, to 130,3k TEU, including 29,4k TEU of laden reefer containers. Export volume increased by 79%, compared to the same period last year,…