The Russian government has approved construction plans for a toll highway that will dramatically cut cargo shipping times between Europe and China, Vedomosti reported on Monday.
Russia is pursuing an ambitious infrastructure plan in President Vladimir Putin’s current presidential term, including developing its portion of the strategic China-Western Europe transport...
The new Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway line construction will cost 1.5 trillion rubles ($23.9 billion), the government’s preliminary estimates show, according to Vedomosti.
"The preliminary (estimate) is similar to that of Moscow-Kazan - 1.5 trillion (rubles). That is the most expensive section. Second, its length is 800 kilometers, just as...
The parliament of Syria has ratified a bill handing management of the country's largest port to a Russian firm for 49 years, state media said, according to RIA.
The vote on Wednesday comes after a deal between Damascus and the Russian company Stroytransgaz for the management, expansion, and...
The governments of Russia and North Korea have begun formal talks on linking their two countries by building the first road bridge over the Tumen River, Interfax reported.
At present, there is a rail link, and flights between Pyongyang and Vladivostok are available on Mondays and Fridays, but it is...
Russian airline AirBridgeCargo (ABC) and Switzerland’s Unilode Aviation Solutions are jointly introducing new digitized main deck cargo-carrying units which are set to revolutionize the delivery of air cargo shipments, Rusaviainsider.com reports.
The fire-resistant containers are equipped with a transmitting portable electronic device (TPED) that tracks the location of the container...
Sheremetyevo International Airport marked the official change of its name to “Alexander Pushkin” by unveiling a monument of the great Russian poet, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.
“We are glad that we were the first to start implementing the project of assigning the names of our great compatriots to Russian airports,” Mikhail...
The biggest airport in Russia, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, was added by Turkish Cargo to the company’s direct cargo network, with weekly freighter flights from Istanbul starting on 12 June, Air Cargo News reported.
Sheremetyevo is considered one of Russia’s most important airports in terms of cargo activities. The area is seen...
Russia's state-run bank VTB, the country’s second-biggest lender, said on Monday it was buying a controlling stake in Russian railway holding company RTC, a major transporter of grain and timber cargo, Banki.ru reports.
The bank has been expanding its holdings in grain infrastructure in recent months, which some traders have...
Russia’s biggest oil company, Rosneft, said on Sunday it began construction of a jet fueling facility with the capacity of 300,000 tons per year in St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, Interfax reported.
According to the documents provided by the company, the plan is to construct the facility in two stages in...
President Vladimir Putin has renamed a number of Russian airports in honor of famous Russians such as tsars and writers.
Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport will now bear the name of one of Russia’s most well-known poets, Alexander Pushkin, and the airport in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk will be named after another famous national writer,...
