Russian airline S7 Group, which comprises of Siberia Airlines and Globus, has signed a deal with Sea Launch group of companies to buy facilities of the Sea Launch spacecraft launch service, including the maritime platform Odyssey. Under the deal, S7 Group will buy the Sea Launch Commander ship, the Ocean Odyssey platform with installed rocket…
Azerbaijan will receive the first AZ8A freight electric locomotives in summer 2017, Bernard Peille, managing director of the French company Alstom’s South CIS Cluster, reported. These locomotives are produced by Alstom at the production site of the Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty (EKZ) joint venture in Kazakhstan. Peille said the assembly process of electric locomotives had advanced…
Silk Way Helicopter Services (SWHS MMC) commercial helicopter company and Russian helicopter holding Russian Helicopters signed a letter of intent within the ADEX 2016 International Defense Exhibition on September 27. The document was signed by Director General of Silk Way Helicopter Services Azer Sultanov and Deputy Director General of JSC Russian Helicopters Igor Chechikov. According…
Aeroflot PJSC announced traffic statistics for Aeroflot Group (“the group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the company”) for August and the first eight months of 2016. In the first eight months of 2016, Aeroflot Group carried 28.7 million passengers, up by 8.9% YoY. Aeroflot airline carried 19 million passengers, up by 10.2% YoY. Group and…
In January-August the volume of grain shipment for exports by enterprises of PJSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP Group) totaled 3.54 million tons, down by 10.7% YoY, the press-service of the company declared. Also, NCSP Group decreased vegetable oils shipment by 8.7%, to 140 thousand tons. The shipment volumes of chemical cargoes (including mineral fertilizers)…
On September 19-25, the export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 747.4 thousand tons, against 229.4 thousand tons shipped on the previous week. In particular, the wheat shipments totaled 595.3 thousand tons, barley – 5.8 thousand tons, corn – 136.9 thousand tons, and peas – 9.4 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
As of the end of the high season of 2016, International Airport Irkutsk provided services to 1.24 million passengers. According to the company’s press service, the passenger flow during the holidays reached ca. 600 thousand. The number of international flights reached 141.1 thousand, up by 13% YoY. Irkutsk is connected by direct flights with 10…