Federal Tariff Service (FTS of Russia) has approved in its order (Aug, 2010) the rates of dues charged from vessels for the service to use the infrastructure of inland waterways provided by the FSI Volga State Basin Department of Waterways and Navigation.
According to the document annex the navigation fee charged for transit through Nizhny Novgorod - Gorodets area should be 1.534 rubles per 1000 cub m / km, Kolhoznik - Strelets area and from the mouth of the Kama to the mouth of the Vyatka the rate is the same - 0.886 r/1000 c m /km, the part from the mouth of the Oka to the Seima - 0.832 r/1000 c m/km. Pilotage within the basin boundaries will be at 1648.77 rubles an hour. The fee charged from foreign vessels passing via inland waterways in the area of Kolkhoznik - Streletskoye was set at 28.5 r/1000 cub m/km.