IAA PortNews’ summary of past week news

Ports and hydraulic engineering facilities

• Throughput of Russian seaports in 2M’2023 rose by 2.6% YoY
• Bill on termination of lease agreements due to environmental violations in ports has been approved
• Russian Railways: loading of export cargo bound for Russian ports rose by 0.5% to 56 million tonnes in 2M’23
• Repair of hydraulic engineering facilities to be performed in 44 regions of Russia this year
• Commercial Seaport of Korsakov (Sakhalin) acquired a 60-tonne portal crane
• Oversized components of stacker-reclaimer delivered to Shakhtersk
• There is a plan to expand oil pipelines to Primorsk and Novorossiysk
• Volunteer Emergency Response Team of OTECO certified to conduct gas rescue operations
• Crude exports from Primorsk increased by 66% to average 948 thousand barrels per day
• Reconstruction of berths in the port of Korsakov costs over RUB 20 billion
• LNG complex with facilities for loading of bunkering ships to be built in Tatarstan
• The Interdepartmental Commission carried out a regular inspection of the Severka hydrosystem near Moscow
• Operation of new terminal in Pevek (Chukotka) to begin in 2026
• Potential volume of Belorussian cargo to be handled in Russian ports estimated at 30 million tonnes per year

Shipping and logistics

• Vladimir Putin compared the North-South ITC to the Suez Canal, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles straits
• The Far East should expand transit corridors and increase cargo flows to/from the Asia-Pacific – Vladimir Putin
• Cargo volumes carried by Russia’s river transport in 2022 rose by 5.2%, by seaborne transport – by 17.3%
• In his interview with IAA PortNews, Sergey Gaidayev, Head of Azov-Don Basin Administration, tells about the results of 2022 and the plans for the future
• Volga Shipping Company to deploy about 60 vessels for grain transportation in the navigation season of 2023
• TransContainer consiers it reasonable to use gondola cars in container logistics only on routes going to the Far East
• FESCO launches direct Deep Sea service from ports of China to Saint-Petersburg
• Grain deal extended for 60 days – RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Parallel unloading of two vessels for Vostok Oil onto shore ice completed at Cape Tanalau

Shipbuilding and ship repair

• With current rates of construction, Russia’s cruise fleet will halve by 2030 — expert
• New residents of Ulyanovsk SEZ to invest RUB 650 million in production of composite products
• Head of Karelia refers to construction of digital shipyard based on Onezhsky Shipyard as one of the major investment projects in the region
• A facility for repair of commercial, auxiliary and military ships to be created at Azov Ship Repair Plant