PortNews Week 42 headlines summary
Ports and Hydraulic Engineering:
- The Port of Murmansk boundaries updated to accommodate the facilities of NOVATEK's Transport & Services Centre
- FSUE National Fish Resources proposes to revise the scheme for collecting port dues in fishing ports.
- The Nizhny Novgorod region based port SEZ project provides for a cargo throughput of 4.35 million tonnes.
- The bill on the placement of dedicated terminals for storing mineral fertilizers in ports passes its first reading.
- Nine-month container volume at Global Ports marine terminals down 22% to 634 000 TEUs.
- The volume of dredging on the Yenisai basin waterways reached nearly 300 000 cbm.
- National Fish Resources set to review berth lease agreements, to engage in stevedoring activities.
- Design and construction for modernization of the Magadan sea fishing port may take 4 to 5 years.
- Locks gates overhaul project as part of the Gorodets hydroengineering complex rehabilitation gets go ahead.
Shipping and Logistics
- Seaborne exports / imports volume between Vietnam and Russia reached 252 400 tonnes by the 2022 year-end.
- The plan for deployment of icebreakers in the Russian freezing ports during the 2023-2024 shipping season will take into account the proposals of experts.
- Kamchatka Shipping Company launches a regular line Vladivostok - Magadan - Vostochny.
- Russian oil companies shipped to China about 1.5 million tonnes of crude oil via the Northern Sea Route in 2023.
- Russian grain exports to China soar more than threefold year-to-date.
- The eight-month volume of trade between Russia and China was twice as high as the trade with all EU countries.
- The North-South Transport Corridor’s Jalinda-Mohe project to shorten the route of goods from Yakutia to China.
- Morwenna is transferring its Russian-flagged 44 vessels from RINA to RS flag.
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair
- How can the USSR shipbuilding experience be useful today?
- Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipyard hosts keel-laying ceremony for RV duo of Project 03182R.
- Amur River Basin Authority takes delivery of the Project 3052 buoy tender Puteisky-15 from Blagoverf Shipyard.
- Central Bank of Russian Federation: In conditions of increased domestic demand, the backlog of North-West shipyards remains high.
- First RITM-200 reactor for the 22220-series nuclear-powered icebreaker Chukotka successfully shipped.
- Vostochnaya Verf Shipyard to launch one more crab catcher of Project 03141 in Q1, 2024.
- Ship repair dockyard project in the Kamchatka Krai gets green light.
- Igor Orlov: Northern Shipyard is unprofitable due to orders under keel-per-guata’ investment scheme.
Resignations and Appointments
Appointment of new director of LORP’s Zhatai Ship Repair Yard LORP.
Bunker Market
Vladivostok is reviving, LNG market is growing: Bunker Market Digest.