September 23 2025
The Chinese vessel XIANG YUE SU HANG is undergoing a test voyage on Russian inland waterways in the Far East. The combined voyage, which began in a seaport in southern China, will test the feasibility of river-sea cargo transportation along the Lower Amur River to the Chinese river port of Fuyuan and back to seaports.
The vessel has passed through the Nikolaevsk-on-Amur checkpoint and is currently en route to the port of Khabarovsk.
During the test voyage, two technical fleet vessels will be delivered to the Chinese port of Fuyuan. The return voyage to the port of Taicang will carry containerized grain cargo.
The voyage route is as follows: Port of Taicang (China) – Port of Vanino – Port of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur – Port of Khabarovsk – Port of Fuyuan (China) – Port of Khabarovsk – Port of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur – Port of Vanino – Port of Taicang.
The Chinese vessel’s navigation is being supported by specialists from the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Amur Waterway Administration,” track workers and supervisory vessels from the Komsomolsk and Khabarovsk District Administrations of Inland Waterways, as well as staff from the Russian and Chinese sections of the Joint Russian-Chinese Commission on Navigation on Border Sections of the Amur Basin Rivers.
Earlier, in preparation for the test voyage, Russian and Chinese specialists determined that the vessel’s main dimensions comply with those of the inland waterways of the Amur Estuary and Lower Amur. Issues related to border, customs, sanitary and quarantine, and port controls were discussed, as well as the organization of pilotage.
As a reminder, Russia and China continue to collaborate on developing the Russian-Chinese intermodal transport corridor “Northeast China – Russian Far East.”
The Chinese side is modernizing the Manjita deepwater port in Fuyuan. Its development includes handling container cargo, as well as the commissioning of the Jinliang cross-border agricultural project, which will ensure an uninterrupted “grain corridor” along the route Fuyuan – Khabarovsk – Nikolaevsk-on-Amur – the Sea of Japan – and ports in southern China.
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