Tag: Russia
According to estimates by the partnership, about 500 new freight cars traveling to Russia had accumulated at the Topoli-Solovey border crossing as of Friday, awaiting customs clearance.
War Over Trucks: Poland Seeking Ukraine As Ally Against Russia
Russia requires additional expenditures on insurance of cargo from foreign carriers, which makes transportation by truck a significantly less profitable business. Poland believes that Moscow has declared a transport war on it and is seeking to ally with Ukraine.
Russian Railways Offers To Accelerate Delivery Of Goods For Additional Fee
The Russian Railways has been prohibited from avoiding penalties for delays, meaning that it will no longer be able to impose on clients agreements for “increasing the period of delivery of goods.
Officials will face a fine of 20,000 rubles (USD 612) and legal entities 200,000 rubles (USD 6,126 dollars) if a freight train or ship is delayed by one hour.
Russian Railways lost about 1.3 million passengers or 2.5% of the passenger traffic on long-distance trains in the first half of the year.
Airport Privatization: How It Works In Russia
Russia has already tried all the models for attracting private capital to the airport business, but the main mechanism was privatization through open competitions. What serves as the signal to invest in one Russian airport or another?
Transit of Coal: the Russians are Actively Developing Alternative Routes
Transshipment of Russian coal at Ukrainian ports has fallen by half in five years, despite an increase in coal production in Russia. New projects in Murmansk and Taman will further strengthen the negative trend involving the fall the volume of coal transit. Ukraine needs to make its case in the battle for freight traffic.
