February 24, 2021

By order of the Government of Russia dated January 22, 2021 No. 109-r, the boundaries of the Dikson seaport have been adjusted. This was reported by the press service of FSUE “Rosmorport”.

The adjustments are related to the inclusion in its boundaries of one water plot and one land plot located in the Yenisei Bayand intended for positioning the offshore coal terminal facilities. It is a part of the development of the Syradasai coal deposit in the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenetsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The explored reserves of the Syradasay deposit amount to almost 5.7 billion tons of coal of grades G (gas), Zh (fatty), K (coke) and OS (lean-caking). The deposit has one of the largest reserves of valuable coking coal.

The coal mined at the field will be transported by industrial railway to a new coal terminal in Dikson seaport, from where it will be exported to the countries of Southeast Asia along the Northern Sea Route.

At the first stage of development of the coal terminal project the planned volume of cargo transshipment will be 5 million tons per year, and within the next 3-4 years it should double. The length of the quay wall of the coal terminal will be 500 meters, and the depth at the cordon of the quay wall – up to 15.5 meters which will allow to proceed vessels of large gross tonnage.

Source: “ROSMORPORT”

February 24, 2021

94 thousand tons of lignite and hard coal were produced in January in the territory of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. In comparison with the same period in 2020, coal shipments increased by 27%.

According to the information of the regional department of industry, the significant growth was provided by the OJSC “Ugolnaya mine” (Anadyr). In the first month of the year, the company extracted 36.7 thousand tons at the Anadyr brown coal deposit, while last year in January it had shipped only 1 thousand tons. The increase in the result is due to the conclusion of an agreement for the supply of coal with the Egvekinot power plant and the communal services of Anadyr region.

At the same time, the second coal company in the region – “Beringpromugol” LLC (part of “Tiger Realm Coal Ltd”) reduced production in January by 20%, to 57.3 thousand tons. The company is extracting the coking coal at the Fandyushkinskoye field.

In 2021 the coal mine “Ugolnaya” plans to produce at least 100 thousand tons of coal while “Beringpromugol”’s plan for 2021 stands for 760 thousand tons.

Source: NEDRADV

February 10, 2021

The turnover of the seaports of Russia in January 2021 amounted to 63.35 million tons, which is 7.8% less than the same period last year, the press service of “Rosmorrechflot” reports.

The volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 30.05 million tons (+ 4.7%), liquid cargo – 33.3 million tons (-16.7%).

It is noted that a significant decrease in transshipment indicators, primarily for liquid cargo, is associated, among other things, with a long streak of storms in the Black Sea, which suspended the traffic flow and the operation of port facilities. In particular, the idle period for Novorossiysk seaport was almost three weeks. As a result, the volume of transshipment in the port compared to January 2020 fell by 22.9% – to 9.968 million tons.

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Azov-Black Sea basin in January decreased by 15.9% – to 17.33 million tons. At the same time, the volume of dry cargo transshipment increased by 7.7%, amounting to 8.0 million tons, liquid cargo decreased by 29.3% – to 9.33 million tons.

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Arctic basin decreased by 12.2% – to 7.59 million tons, of which the volume of dry cargo transshipment amounted to 1.99 million tons (-17.8%), liquid cargo – 5.6 million tons (-10,1 %).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Baltic basin decreased by 5.1% – to 21.05 million tons. Of these, the volume of dry cargo transshipment amounted to 9.44 million tons (+ 8.4%), liquid cargo – 11.61 million tons (-13.8%).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Caspian basin decreased by 10.7% – to 0.65 million tons. Of these, the volume of dry cargo transshipment amounted to 0.24 million tons (-21.5%), liquid cargo – 0.41 million tons (-3.0%). The largest seaport of the basin, Makhachkala, did not work for a week due to weather conditions in January.

The cargo turnover of the ports of the Far Eastern basin increased by 1.3% and reached 16.73 million tons. Of these, the volume of dry cargo transshipment amounted to 10.38 million tons (+ 5.5%), liquid cargo – 6.35 million tons (-4.9%).

Source: “PortNews”, https://portnews.ru/news/308692/

February 5, 2021

On February 4, the ceremony of raising the state flag of the Russian Federation took place on the trawler ‘Barents Sea’ (project KMT01). The first domestically built large-capacity trawler-processor was completed at the Vyborg shipyard in the Leningrad region.

Trawler-processor “Barents Sea” was handed over to the Customer by shipbuilders of Vyborg in September 2020. The vessel was built within the framework of the state program of “investment quotas”, which provides for the allocation of additional quotas for catching biological resources to companies building vessels at the shipyards of the Russian Federation.

The vessel is equipped with a factory for full cycle processing and freezing and the latest trawl complex. The trawler uses a number of the latest solutions that increase the efficiency of the vessel in the fishery, for example, an integrated system of variable frequency of the internal power grid, which ensures fuel savings during crossings, as well as equipment that allows using a computer to sort frozen products by type and form pallets that will be transported from the hold to the upper deck of the trawler through the elevator shaft, from where they will be unloaded ashore, double reducing the time for unloading products from the ship.

Source: https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/139266/

February 2, 2021, “ Rosmorrechflot”

According to the data provided by the NSR Administration, 2.598 million tons of cargo were transported along the NSR in January 2021, an increase over the same period in 2020 amounted to 8.3%.

At the moment, the water area of ​​the Northern Sea Route is covered with consolidated one-year ice. There are hummocks up to 3-4 points, fields of frost on the recommended routes in the Gulf of Ob and on the approaches to it, the captains of the ships note periodic ice compression.

At Cape Zhelaniya and on the approaches to the Boris Vilkitsky Strait, an iceberg threat remains.

Icebreaking operations in the water area of ​​the NSR were carried out by conventional icebreakers ‘Admiral Makarov’ and ‘Krasin’ (FSUE Rosmorport), the nuclear-powered icebreakers ‘Yamal’, ‘Vaygach’, ‘Taimyr’ and ‘50 Let Pobedy’ (the last one entered the water area of ​​the NSR on January 23^rd).

Icebreaking support in the port of Sabetta was carried out by the icebreakers ‘Ob’, ‘Tor’, ‘St. Petersburg’ (FSUE Rosmorport), in the port of Dudinka – by the icebreakers ‘Dudinka’ and ‘Avraamy Zavenyagin’.

The icebreakers ‘Alexander Sannikov’ and ‘Andrey Vilkitsky’ ensured the safety of navigation at the “Arctic” oil export terminal of the “Gates of the Arctic” Novoportovskoye field.

In January 2021, the NSR Administration issued 5 permits for vessels flying a foreign flag to sail in the water area of ​​the NSR (in 2020, 9 permits were issued for the same period, including 6 for vessels flying a foreign flag).

Source: http://morflot.gov.ru/novosti/lenta/n5107.html

January 29, 2021  “PortNews”

Source: https://tvbrics.com

The ‘North-South’ transport corridor, which will compete with the route through the Suez Canal, is becoming increasingly clear-cut. The port of Mumbai will become a gateway to this route, India is the most interested party in this project. Russia will also receive enormous benefits from the international transport corridor, playing the role of a transit country.

The idea of ​​connecting continents with a full-fledged transport corridor has been discussed for 20 years. Initially, three states participated in the project: Russia, India and Iran. Their goal was to connect the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf with the Caspian Sea through Iran. This would provide a route to the Nordic countries via Russia. Later, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Oman, Syria and Bulgaria (as an observer) joined the project.

The transport connectivity of these states will contribute to the development of trade in the Eurasian space.

Currently, cargo from India to Russia goes mainly via Europe and China. It takes a long time. For example, cargo going to Europe from India is delivered by sea to St. Petersburg within 40 days. Such long transportation is also expensive.

A test flight along the ‘North-South’ International transport corridor showed that cargo from India to Russia travels twice as fast via Iran and Azerbaijan. The cost of such transportation can be reduced by almost 30%, says the newspaper “Kommersant”.

Under the project, railways, highways and sea routes will be used for cargo transportation. A 50-kilometer railway line has already been constructed across Russia to the seaport of Olya in the Astrakhan region. The harbor will proceed a variety of container ships.

The launch of the route as a whole largely depends on the position and activity of India. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the MGIMO study “Eurasian Strategies”. The challenge is that China, interested in increasing the possibilities of export supplies to Europe, is developing latitudinal routes, while India is considering meridional routes. India has already invested over two billion dollars in the project and plans to go further. Experts are confident that the start of cargo transportation along the ‘North-South’ international transport corridor , will accelerate bilateral Indian-Russian trade as well.