Transit navigation opens in Azov-Don Basin

Transit navigation opened in the Azov-Don Basin on 1 April 2019, by the order of Federal Marine and River Transport Agency  (Rosmorrechflot) dated 17.12.2018, the Agency says in a press release.

The first articulated tug-and-barge units owned by Prime Shipping passed the Kochetkovsky hydrosystem to the port of Saratov to be loaded with oil products.

By this date, the waterway and the hydraulic engineering structures have been prepared on the Lower Don taking into consideration all requirements on safe navigation.