The number of container trains going from China to Europe transiting through Kazakhstan has increased more than twice. Since the beginning of the year, 1,210 container trains passed through the territory of Kazakhstan on the China-Europe railroad. During the same period of last year, 503 trains went this way, according to Kazakhstan national railway company.…
On September 26 – October 2, the export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 425.8 thousand tons, against 747.4 thousand tons shipped on the previous week. In particular, the wheat shipments totaled 382.5 thousand tons, barley – 1.2 thousand tons, and corn – 39.1 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Russian oil major Rosneft has asked the government to cut oil pipeline monopoly Transneft’s tariffs for domestic oil and oil product transportation by 50% and decrease Russian Railways’ tariffs by 30%. Rosneft asked this in August, while ministries were ordered to study the issue in September. Representatives of Rosneft and Transneft declined to comment, representatives…
Federal Freight, a unit of Russian Railways, plans to lease around 16,000 rail cars from VEB-Leasing for five years to substitute its written-off fleet. The deal will become part of a big cooperation agreement between Vnesheconombank (VEB) and Russian Railways, which is planned for signing, and in the future, the sides will develop cooperation in…
Belarus’ cargo traffic by all means of transport reduced by 4.5% YoY in January-August to 285.566 million tons, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus (Belstat) said in a report. Cargo transportation by railways in January-August stood at 81.602 million tons (down by 5% YoY), including transit cargo traffic – 20 million tons (down by 22.3%).…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has granted Ukrainian operator Antonov Company (Antonov Airlines) broad air charter exemptions for flights to and from the US. These exemptions follow the U.S.-Ukraine Open Skies agreement, concluded on July 14, 2015, and became effective earlier this year. The U.S. DOT has also tentatively granted Antonov Company a foreign air…
FESCO Transportation Group and Rusagro Group have signed an Agreement of intent to arrange a special-purpose technology based on the Vladivostok Commercial Sea Port (part of FESCO Group) infrastructure to handle export agricultural products, FESCO says in a press release. The agreement is intended to optimize the supply logistics of Rusagro goods to the Asia…