Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in January-September fell by 2.3%, YoY, to 3,870,700 tons, the Port Authority reported. Grain shipments declined by 0.5% to 1,861,500 tons, construction materials – by 14.8% to 381,200 tons, timber – by 35.1% to 259,700 tons, crude oil went up by 7.8% to 42,400 tons, oil products…
60 cruise ships were serviced at the embankments of Saint-Petersburg in the navigation season of 2016. Those vessels brought to the city 26,000 cruise passengers, Andrei Mushkarev, Chairman of Saint-Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development, reported. According to him, FSUE Rosmorport is planning to reconstruct the landing stages at Angliyskaya and Lieutenant Shmidt embankments. (Portnews/Business World…
Investment potential of the new storing capacities with possibility of water transport handling is estimated at $250 million. This is what the director of Hermes-Trading Yuri Skichko believes. According to him, total handling capacities may reach 5-7 MMT by 2019/2020. Additional storing facilities for river logistics can reach 2.8 MMT, including the new ones –…
On October 10-16, Ukraine exported 506 thousand tons of grains from the seaports against 545.9 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 244.1 thousand tons, barley – 135.4 thousand tons, and corn – 126.5 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
TAP will be able to proceed with the replanting of the olive trees along the route in Italy, starting from the micro tunneling area, from November, Lisa Givert, TAP Head of Communications, reported. She was commenting on protests in Italy’s Puglia region demanding the pipeline re-routed away from the prized grove, which included olive trees…
The Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project is synchronized with expiration of Russia’s gas transit contract with Ukraine in December 2019, Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported. “Speaking of the Turkish Stream, the project’s implementation deadline is December 2019, which means that the infrastructure will be built until the end of 2019. It is in full…
International Launch Services (ILS) and Eutelsat have announced the signing of two launch contracts for the 2018-2020 period. ILS is a Khrunichev Space Center subsidiary, which provides Proton-based launch services for global international commercial satellite operators, and Eutelsat Communications is one of the world’s leading operators of satellite communications, headquartered in Paris, France. The first…