2023 November 7 09:54

Ports and Hydraulic Engineering:

• Cargo traffic via the North-South ITC’ ports soar 64% in Jan-Sept to 4 million tonnes.
• The Volga-Don Shipping Canal No33 pumping station rehabilitation project completed.
• The 20-km-long tracks on railway access to Port of Lavna in Murmansk region, or 40% of the projected work, have been completed.
• Four new city piers will be equipped n St. Petersburg in 2024-2025.
• The most significant hydraulic engineering facilities in the Baikal basin are being reconstructed as part of national projects.
• Far Eastern ports operated at 64% capacity as of early Oct 2023, with 110% projected for the year-end, RZD official said.
• New gantry cranes commissioned at CPV Pervomaisky in Vladivostok.
• Vladmorrybport purchased five RUB 1.7bn new cranes.
• National Fish Resources carried out a major redevelopment of two fishing piers in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
• Eurochem launches public consultations on the project of Ust-Luga fertilizers terminal project.
• Cargo throughput at the Natsrybresurs berths rose 29% in Jan-Sept, to 15.8 million tonnes.
• Glavgosexpertiza gives nod to the project of the terminal basin creation for handling coal from Syradasayski deposit.
• The construction of a navigable dam at No4 hydroelectric complex of the North Dvina lock system has been completed.

Shipping and Logistics

• Russian companies will be compensated In 2024 for the costs of seaborne transport to Kaliningrad.
• The operation of hydraulic engineering structures in the Moscow basin during the 2023 shipping season will last until Nov 17.
• Work of the locks on Volgo-Balt will be completed as scheduled on Nov 15, 2023.
• Navigation season ended on the Volgo-Balt Novgorodsky waterways and shipping area.
• New agreements signed for the Middle Volga-Caspian Sea-Persian Gulf logistics project development.
• FESCO launches a container service between Vladivostok and the Port of Chattogram, Bangladesh.
• Belarus needs port facilities in Primorye to export its goods.
• The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan proposes to create a single shipping operator for the delivery of goods to Iran.
• The ST-192 design trawler Mechanik Sizov began fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.
• The transportation of fertilizers in big bags may be allowed through the Kerch Strait.
• First three China-bound coal carriers depart Port Sabetta.
• The ports of Vladivostok and Nakhodka willl be linked with South Korea ports through a new container line.

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair

• Russian authorities held several auctions in October to distribute part of the crab fishing quotas. Most of the lots (23) were allocated for investment commitments, which involve the construction of a medium-tonnage crab catcher with a length exceeding 50 meters. VARPE estimates the total investment in their construction at RUB 46-47 billion.
• An agreement was signed in Tatarstan on the development and implementation of shipbuilding projects for Lake Baikal.
• Nordic Engineering: The Port of Murmansk requires 10 additional tugs as part of infrastructure projects for the development of the Northern Sea Route.
• Gazprom LNG Technologies LLC plans to build an LNG bunkering barge and an LNG-powered pusher.
• The construction of a new floating dock at Yantar Shipyard with a lifting capacity of 12000 will take up to two and a half years.
• A decision was made to build the third workshop of Zhatai Shipyard.
• China to build 20 Optimax dry cargo ships for a Russian company.
• Rosrybolovstvo will auction four crab quotas lots with an investment commitment to build medium-tonnage fishing vessels.
• The ASCO’s ferry Mercury 1 enters service upon completion of a major overhaul.
• VNIIR-Progress will supply electrical equipment to Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard for 34 RSD59-series dry cargo ships.
• Gazprombank Leasing is interested in financing the construction and acquisition of LNG-powered vessels.
• Nakhodka Shipyard completes the hull assembly of the eighth crab catcher of CCa5712LS project.
• Perm Shipyard shipped next batch of five pantoon berths for electric vessels to Moscow.
• Sea trials of L1100H electric catamaran (Looker 1100H) started.

Bunker Market

• There is gas, but there is no equipment: what prevents the introduction of LNG as a marine fuel.
• The ten-month volume of bunkering in the Port of Vladivostok decreased by 11%.
• VARPE proposed to cancel the surcharge rate for marine fuel.
• The introduction of LNG as a fuel in Russia is hampered by the imperfection of the regulatory framework, expert says.