14 December 2011
Seagull donates seafarer training software to Mercy Ships
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 9 November 2011
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin on the forthcoming "Transport Week-2011"
Over the past five years Transport Week has become firmly lodged in the business calendar of every transport enterprise manager in our country, CIS member states and across the world. With every passing year the event is becoming an ever more important forum for strengthening cooperation, discussing issues of nationwide significance and adopting significant decisions that determine major transport and industrial companies’ priorities. |
 5 October 2011
IMO Secretary General Mr. Mitroupolos on combating piracy
"Governments need to back up their oft-stated concern over the situation by deploying military and other resources commensurate, in numbers and technology, with the scale of the problem and with a realistic chance of dealing with it effectively,” |
 6 July 2011
SCF Group Board Chairman Sergey Naryshkin on the Company’s Development Strategy
“Sovcomflot faces a difficult task - to enter into new Russian high-tech market segments, the most demanded by Russian oil and gas companies, and still retain the leading positions in traditional segments of shipping.” |
 29 June 2011
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on privatization of state-run companies
- State in the next three or five years should pull out of nearly all state-owned key companies it holds majority stake in. These are the financial sector, oil sector, telecommunications, transportation companies, beginning with Sovkomflot, Aeroflot and others. |
 30 May 2011
Governor Valentina Matvienko on transfer of the passenger port "Marine Façade” to St. Petersburg
"So far the city has never had such gifts. St. Petersburg has been in many ways a pioneer, now it owns the only one in Russia specialized passenger port. |
 5 May 2011
On the transport corridor "North-South" - Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Viktor Olersky during the meeting of the Russian Government’s Marine Board in Astrakhan
- Of course, all those present here understand the importance of the "North-South” transport corridor. We must admit that so far its potential has been realized at its minimum, and essentially we're still at the beginning. The Ministry of Transport conducted an analysis of the situation, a series of consultations with potential shippers. This allowed us to identify a number of negative factors.
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 20 April 2011
Rosmorport CEO Igor Rusu on winter navigation at Big Port St. Petersburg
Last winter was not extreme; we’ve had more severe winters. However, the winds complicated escorts of ships by icebreakers. And we understand that to ensure all those plans for development of port infrastructure in St. Petersburg, the state will have to invest heavily within 10-15 years in icebreakers fleet. Very soon, we will need to build at least 5 or 6 line icebreakers. The volume of investments, currently estimated to be between 70 to 100 billion rubles. |
 23 March 2011
Secretary-General of IMO Mr. Efthimios Mitropoulos about emission of greenhouse gases:
"Indeed, we are in the final stages of developing a robust regime to regulate shipping emissions at the global level. It consists of three distinct ‘building blocks’: technical and operational reduction measures (the development of which is at a very advanced stage) and market-based measures (on which the Organization is making good progress in pursuance of a work plan set to culminate this year)". |
 22 February 2011
Russia’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade Elvira Nabiullina on the impact of state regulation of business:
I would want to focus on the first results of the Ministry’s work for assessment of regulatory impact on business. The order that provides for assessment procedure of regulatory impact was signed In August 2010. |
