According to Shipyard General Director A. Alexander Buzakov, the acknowledgement act for the ice-resistant North Pole platform, which is still being built at Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg, will be approved in the summer of 2022, TASS reports.
"The platform is set to undergo short-scale sailing tests on September 25,...
Sheremetyevo Airport plans to serve more than 46 million passengers in 2018, a 14.6 percent increase compared to 2017, the Chairman of Sheremetyevo’s Board of Directors Alexander Ponomarenko said in an interview with Vedomosti.
Ponomarenko, a Russian billionaire and business magnate who made his fortune in banking, sea ports, commercial...
With help from allies Russia and China, the first new train passenger cars in Cuba in more than four decades set off on their maiden journey across the island on Saturday, Reuters reported. The country’s government hopes the move will start off a total revamp of its decrepit railway...
At least 50 flights by Russia’s national flag carrier Aeroflot planned to be operated by domestic-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100) were canceled since a Moscow crash landing of the aircraft killed 41 people last week, Fontanka reports.
The plane’s tail section caught fire on the runway after an emergency...
The Main Construction Expert Review Agency (Glavgosexpertiza) of Russia has approved the design engineering surveys for construction of the remaining section of the airport main taxiway and adjacent parts of other taxiways at Sheremetyevo International Airport.
The work is part of the second stage of the reconstruction of the Sh-1 sector...
Car-sharing service “Yandex.Drive” opened its own parking lounge in Sheremtyevo Airport’s Terminal D. Thanks to the parking spot, Yandex.Drive users will now find it easier to search and rent a car upon arrival for travel around the city, the company stated.
The parking space is designed for 20 seats, and...
Russia’s third-largest carrier, Rossiya Airlines, will transfer some of its narrow-body aircraft to sister airlines Aeroflot and low-cost carrier Pobeda, Rusaviainsider.com reports.
Rossiya is a member of state-run Aeroflot Group. The company also said it plans to further strengthen its presence at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, its original base. The...
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...
The Russian government has pledged to invest around $40 billion in infrastructure during President Vladimir Putin’s sixth term in office, and authorities are already choosing projects on which to spend the money, Kommersant reports.
According to the business newspaper, projects planned to be financed under the government’s program span all...
The volume of rail freight transportation between Russia and Azerbaijan amounted to 6,240 tons in 2019, while in 2018 and 2017 this indicator was 4,744 tons and 4,774 tons, respectively, the chairman of Azerbaijan Railways has said, according to AzerNews.
According to Javid Gurbanov, this type of transportation increased by 31.5 percent...