FSUE “Rosmorport” and “MSC GROUP”, Italian holding company, discussed the “Construction of Sea Terminal in the City of Pionersky” project. The meeting, held on July 19, in Genoa (Italy), was attended by Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport Viktor Olersky, Deputy Head…
On July 4 to 17, the Arkhangelsk Branch Ice Pilots escorted a caravan consisting of 15 vessels of the Jan De Nul company dredger fleet to the Gulf of Ob of the Kara Sea, says Rosmorport. The icebreaker escort distance amounted to 1200 nautical miles. The Point of Destination of these dredgers was the seaport…
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…
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 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,…
Tajik national air carrier, Tajik Air, plans to launch transit flights to Belgium and France. Tajik Air Director-General Khairullo Rahimov says the request for launching new flights to Europe has come from partner air companies of China, India and Pakistan. He also noted that Tajik Air had launched an air route from Dushanbe to Beijing,…