Friday, May 17, 2024
Singapore companies are welcome to take part in Russian state tenders after the government in Moscow embarks on an infrastructure spending program worth $100 billion, the head of the country's sovereign wealth fund, the RDIF, has said in an interview with Business Times. "The economic relationship between Singapore and Russia...
Finnish freight company Nurminen Logistics announced this week that it had sold its Russian wagon fleet of around 350 vehicles to TransLes, Finnish media outlet Arvopaperi has reported. TransLes is part of Russia’s Rustranscom Group of freight companies. It is one of the largest wagon operators in the Russian forestry sector, working a fleet...
The main body of the Chinese part of the first cross-river railway bridge connection with Russia has been completed as part of China's Belt and Road initiative, according to Meduza. This bridge across the Heilong River (known as Amur River in Russia) will connect Tongjiang city in Heilongjiang province with...
Russia will build 22,065 km (13,000 miles) of oil and gas pipelines by 2022, which will account for around 75% of planned and announced additions in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), according to GlobalData. The company’s report, ‘Oil and Gas Pipelines Industry Outlook in Former Soviet Union to 2022’,...
Moscow plans to build two more 18 MW diesel-electric ice-breakers for Russia’s Far Eastern and northwestern ports worth over 14 billion rubles ($209.6 million), Kommersant reports citing sources. The keels for the new vessels are expected to be laid next year, the newspaper’s sources said. However, the Russian Economic Development...
UK-based train and coach platform Trainline has collaborated with tour operator Real Russia to expand its presence in Russia, Breaking Travel News reports. As part of the collaboration, Trainline customers will have access to various trans-continental journeys provided by Trans-Siberian Express, as well as the high-speed Sapsan trains that...
The European Union has approved and adjusted anti-dumping duties on steel pipes originating in Russia and Ukraine, as reported in the Official Journal of the European Union on Tuesday, according to TASS news agency. "The EU Council imposing a definite anti-dumping duty on imports of certain seamless pipes and tubes,...
British-based design studio Zaha Hadid Architects won against 47 international teams in a competition to design the new Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia, ArchDaily reported. Yekaterinburg, a growing cultural center in central Russia, was known as Sverdlovsk from 1924 to 1991. The new Sverdlovsk Concert Hall will be...
UK-based studio LDA Design has won an international competition to create a landscape-led masterplan in Russia’s Kaliningrad by putting water at the heart of its design, Mail.ru News reports. Leading a multi-disciplinary team, LDA Design’s vision for Oktyabrsky Island, which sits in the Pregolya River, beat four finalists to...
Russia and Germany have agreed to a new railway connection between Berlin and Russia’s “northern capital” St. Petersburg, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure has confirmed after reports in Russian media. The train will go from Germany to the Russian exclave city of Kaliningrad and then onwards...