IAA PortNews’ summary of past week news

Ports and hydraulic engineering

Amid the deficit of grain handling facilities in the Baltic Basin, Leningrad Region authorities approved construction of a dedicated terminal in Ust-Luga.
Association of Commercial Sea Ports developed proposals on port industry support in Russia.
Rosmorport presented its plans on development of Russian ports while the Ministry of Transport says that implementation of some points of the Transport Strategy can be postponed.
State Duma approved in the first reading the bill on incorporation of FSUE Rosmorport.
Oil loading was suspended at CPC Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk due to a damage caused by a storm.
Assembling of charging stations at passenger berths of Saint-Petersburg to be executed in 2023-24.
Rosmorport will hold a tender on designing of an artificial plot of land at Great Port of Saint-Petersburg.
Rosmorport holds a tender on designing of federally owned facilities in the port of Sochi.
About 100 hydraulic engineering facilities require repair, said Rosvodresursy. Meanwhile the agency expects river navigation 2022 to run without collapses.
Hydrosystem No 1 is undergo reconstruction by 2024.
Gormost will hold tender for dredging at three births in Moscow.

RF Government launches the mechanism of subsidizing regular cargo transportation on the Northern Sea Route.
RF Government also defined conditions for accepting ships from unfriendly states in Russian seaports.
Tomsk shipping company counts on retaining its scope of cargo shipping at the level of 2021.
In the navigation season of 2022, Azov-Don Basin authorities plan to carry 10 million tonnes of cargo.
Passage of ships through all bottlenecks of the Volga-Caspian Canal to be ensured by mid-April.
Growing demand for eastward shipping entails deficit of containers, says the market players adding that the situation is aggravated by overloading of the railway infrastructure

Delivery of ice-resistant self-propelled platform North Pole is scheduled for August 2022.
United Shipbuilding Corporation suggests increasing shipyards’ capital and financing of defence orders.
Admiralteiskie Verfi will lay down two Lada series submarines of Project 677 this year.
Emperium is set to deliver 11 electric ships in summer 2022. The company head also looks into creation of a network of assembling shops across Russia. Meanwhile, Mosco Transport Department started testing the first electric ships.
Construction of river/sea going ships continues. Okskaya Sudoverf shipyard launched yet another multifunctional dry cargo ship of Project RSD59.
Yantar Shipyard held a keel-laying for the third 7MW multifunction salvage vessel in a series of MPSV06M design ships for Marine Rescue Service.
Vympel shipyard developed a designed of a dry cargo / container cargo carrier.
As IAA PortNews is informed, the programme on construction of fishing and crab catching ships by local yards can be revised due to sanctions imposed on Russia.
Shipbuilding in Russia is affected by the surge of shipbuilding steel prices. Actual price of shipbuilding steel in Russia exceeds production cost 2-3 times.