Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport of Russian Transport Ministry (RosMorRechFlot) has scheduled this year navigation on the Volga-Baltic waterways and the river of Neva to be open since April 30, PortNews IAA reports quoting Vladimir Nikolayev, Chief of Volga-Balt Basin Department.
Earlier reports said, last year’s navigation along the Neva River was opened on April 16th as the Volga-Baltic artery was open for regular freight and passenger traffic from April 30, 2009. At the same ice conditions on Lake Onega were bad until May 11th, when the lake became navigable.
In 2009 16.7 million tons of cargo (timber, construction, chemicals, metals, petroleum products, fluxes, etc.) were transported on the basin waterways.
Volga-Baltic is one of the most important waterways, part of the unified system of deep inland waterways of the European part of Russia. This is a complex of engineering facilities, which includes 4900 km of operated inland waterways, including 3270 km of guaranteed dimensions waterways, 11 locks with a pressure of 11 to 18 meters, three hydropower plants, 25 earthen dams and levees, 12 ferries, 9 bridges 8 lighthouses in Ladoga Lake, more than 5.000 of waterway signs, 273 service fleet ships.
Earlier reports said, last year’s navigation along the Neva River was opened on April 16th as the Volga-Baltic artery was open for regular freight and passenger traffic from April 30, 2009. At the same ice conditions on Lake Onega were bad until May 11th, when the lake became navigable.
In 2009 16.7 million tons of cargo (timber, construction, chemicals, metals, petroleum products, fluxes, etc.) were transported on the basin waterways.
Volga-Baltic is one of the most important waterways, part of the unified system of deep inland waterways of the European part of Russia. This is a complex of engineering facilities, which includes 4900 km of operated inland waterways, including 3270 km of guaranteed dimensions waterways, 11 locks with a pressure of 11 to 18 meters, three hydropower plants, 25 earthen dams and levees, 12 ferries, 9 bridges 8 lighthouses in Ladoga Lake, more than 5.000 of waterway signs, 273 service fleet ships.