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2023 January 27   18:18

IAA PortNews’ summary of past week news

Ports and hydraulic engineering

  • Port cluster for handling of loose cargo to be created in Nixhneleninsky port
  • Length of Astrakhan port’s waterflont amended in the Resister of Russian seaports
  • Utrenny terminal facilities of Arctic LNG 2 project to be put into operation in May 2023
  • Transport Prosecutor’s Office investigates contamination of ice in Vanino Bay  with coal dust
  • Murmansk Fish Port to invest over RUB 800 million into modernization of its production facilities this year
  • SevMorProject wins tender on construction of support fleet maintenance base in Ust-Luga
  • Substation for power supply to conveyor at Shakhtersk coal port put into operation

Shipping and logistics

  • RF Government suggests using research vessels for tourist purposes
  • Number of passengers on IWW tourist routs can surge 1.8 times this year
  • Passenger transportation by high-speed ships in the Black Sea Basin to be increased by 15-20% in 2023
  • The Kremlin reminds about free shipping in view of possible expansion of Estonia’s contiguous zone 
  • Rosmorrechflot welcomes applications for subsidized cargo transportation to Kaliningrad
  • Volga Shipping Company carried 34.1 thousand tonnes of cargo by the Northern Sea Route in 2022
  • Subsidized voyages on NSR to be increased to four this year

Shipbuilding and ship repair

  • Average age of the world’s merchant fleet has increased by 10% over the recent decade largely due to the environmental agenda. Meanwhile, it makes investments in five year old tonnage more profitable, hence certain opportunities for Russian ship owners
  • RF Government to approve passports of investment projects on construction of civil ships by February 15
  • Atomenergomash and Krylov State Research Center suggested new technology of LNG transportation by tankers of Project 10070
  • Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet takes delivery of КМТ01 trawler named Beloye Morye (White Sea)
  • Volga-Caspian Canal to be deepened to 4.5 meters by the end of the year
  • Number of personnel to be increased for construction of Zhatai Shipyard
  • R/V Professor Khromov to be converted for operation on Far East cruise routes by summer 2023
  • Vostochnaya Verf shipyard held flag raising ceremony on crab catcher Khabarovsk
  • Order book of Pella SK and Pella-Stapel numbers 12 projects