The Finnish company, VR Transpoint, which coordinates freight transportation on the railways of Finland, resumes accepting trains from the Russian Federation from March 30, 2022. “Earlier, we announced that we are stopping VR Transpoint cargo transportation in the eastern direction [to and from Russia] from March 27 due to UK sanctions against Russian Railways. According
Russian emergency service workers have confirmed the 14-strong crew of a cargo ship that ran aground in the Sea of Japan has been successfully evacuated after a rescue operation was conducted. The team landed on the deck of the Panama-flagged vessel from a Mi-8 helicopter and had rescued all of the sailors. “The operation took
Russian state space corporation (Roscosmos) has applied to the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, which will launch the Progress MS-18 transport cargo ship into orbit patterns of the Khokhloma decorative painting in honour of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod from where the handicraft originated. In connection with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod
The cargo turnover of the Big Port of St. Petersburg in January-September 2020 decreased by 2 per cent compared to the same indicators of the last year, PRIME reports. Including transshipment of oil products increased by 16 per cent and container cargo decreased by 4 per cent. The Big Port of St. Petersburg is the
Due to low air temperatures, Samara rivers started to freeze. In this regard, in the waters of the Rozhdestvenskaya Volozhka and Volga, the work of the freight crossing on the route Oktyabrsky Descent – the village of Rozhdestveno is closed since December 10. “For transport links with the village of Rozhdestveno, a temporary road is
