A commercial container ship has for the first time successfully navigated the Northern Sea Route of the Arctic Ocean, a route made possible by melting sea ice caused by global warming, ABC News reported this week.
Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container shipping company, said its ship, Venta Maersk, was...
Russian Railways has developed the quantum communications development roadmap and submitted the draft paper to the government for approval, the railway operator said on Thursday, TASS reported.
The roadmap comprises development of nine priority technologies and fifteen products by 2024 along with over 35 key performance indicators, such as production...
Russia’s projects are finally underway after delays but experts still don’t believe that President Putin’s ambitious plan to revive Russia’s economy will bear fruit anytime soon, bne Intellinews writes.
The government plans to spend the equivalent of a quarter of the value of the country’s whole economy (in 2018) on...
A 5 billion rubles ($79 million) contract for toll collection on the Moscow Ring Road (CKAD) was awarded to the United Operator (CKAD) linked to oligarch Arkady Rotenberg, Fontanka reported last week.
Companies owned by U.S.-sanctioned Rotenberg are among the largest beneficiaries of state construction and infrastructure contracts in recent...
S7 Technics won a regulatory approval from the Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) to provide line maintenance services on Embraer 170 aircraft at its line station at Irkutsk airport, MRO-Network reported.
The BCAA approval, awarded to the Russian maintenance provider earlier this month following an audit process, is the second...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has served more than 16 million passengers since the beginning of the year, an 12.4% increase compared to the same period in 2017.
According to Flightstats ratings, Sheremetyevo in May again became the leading airport in punctuality among European airports. The indicator of punctuality for departure was...
Serbia’s railway infrastructure company and Russia’s RZD International will sign a contract worth €230 million ($262 million) for three railway upgrade projects, Serbian news outlet B92 reported.
The deal will be signed during the visit of President Vladimir Putin to Belgrade, the Serbian government said in a statement on...
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...
Aeroflot added its fifth and sixth Italian destinations from its Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) hub this week, commencing daily operations to Naples (NAP) and Verona (VRN), Anna Aero informed.
The routes join the SkyTeam carrier’s existing services to Milan Malpensa (35 times weekly), Rome Fiumicino (35), Venice Marco Polo and Bologna (both served twice-daily).
The...
Despite the on-going consolidation of the Russian commercial air transport business, it remains dogged by a rigorous, often aggressive competitive marketplace. Those airlines still on the playing field are constantly searching for efficient ways to stand up to state-owned Aeroflot Group, and the solutions they are coming up with...
