COMMENT | 15.03.2010

Market in exchange for technologies

MarketandTechnoA contract to sell 25% stake in Transmashholding (TMH) to the French company Alstom has been signed recently, in presence of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia. Thus, the French company has gained an access to Russian market, which is among the most capacious railway engineering markets in the world, and the gigantic national holding group receives a support for modernisation of its plants and intellectual developments of the world-famous rolling stock manufacturer.

INTERVIEW | 15.03.2010

Transportations are the union's; Responsibility is national

Vsevolod TitovHow will the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan change the international rail transport? Is the interaction mechanism balanced well enough in this sector today?

Vsevolod Titov, Deputy Director of RZD's Customs Centre, shares his opinion on these matters.

NEWS

Second Varna - Kavkaz railway ferry to be put into operation in August

20.03.2010 (01:08)

The second railway ferry will begin its work on the line Varna (Bulgaria) – Kavkaz (Russia) in August 2010, said Alexander Davydenko, Head of Rosmorrechflot (the RF Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport).

Azerbaijan: a 5% increase in freight transportation in January-February

20.03.2010 (00:47)

In January-February 2010, the volume of cargo transportation in Azerbaijan amounted to 28.2 million tons, a 4.8% growth as compared to the same period of the previous year, said the Republic’s State Statistics Service.

Investments into Russian transport sector increased by 10% in 2009

20.03.2010 (00:37)

The total volume of investments into Russian transport sector in 2009 amounted to approximately RUR 800 billion. Of that, RUR 280 billion was given from the federal budget.

The throughput of Ust-Luga port grew by 17% in January-February 2010

19.03.2010 (15:42)

The throughput of the Ust-Luga port amounted to 1.385 mln tons of cargo in January-February 2010, a 17% increase as compared to the same period of 2009.

Russia: cargo transportation volume fell by 20.4% in 2009

19.03.2010 (13:57)

According to preliminary data, the volume of freight transportation in the RF transport sector amounted to 9.5 billion tons, 20.4% less comparing with the volume carried in 2008, said Sergey Ivanov, the RF Vice Prime Minister, at the meeting of the board of the RF Transport Ministry on Wednesday.

Aeroflot to float exchange bonds

19.03.2010 (11:47)

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines has passed a decision to place two issues of exchange bonds worth a total of RUB 12bn (approx. USD 411m), the Russian flagship air carrier announced in official documents today.

Russian and Finnish customs officers are planning to establish a permanent inter-ministerial working group

19.03.2010 (11:35)

Decision has been taken to establish in the nearest future customs interagency Russian-Finnish working group. According to the press service of the North-West Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, from Russian side Elvira Nabiullina, Minister for Economic Development is considered to be the co-chairman of the group. This issue was discussed at a meeting of representatives of the FCS and the Finnish Customs.

EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES

Intertraffic Amsterdam 2010

23.03.2010 - 26.03.2010

The Netherlands, Amsterdam

SITL Europe

23.03.2010 - 26.03.2010

International week of transport and Logistics


 France, Paris

Infrarail 2010

13.04.2010 - 15.04.2010

8th International Railway Infrastructure exhibition

UK, NEC Birmingham

PRESS REVIEW

Libya on track

17.03.2010 (17:52) | Global Arab Network

Russia builds € 2.2 billion North African railway.

A slow train from Tallinn to Riga

17.03.2010 (17:48) | Helsingin Sanomat

Privatisation of Estonia’s rail transport system has eroded rail traffic

No Nabucco-South Stream merger on the horizon

16.03.2010 (17:22) | RBC

Russia is not weighing the option of merging certain legs of the South Stream and Nabucco

Russia Rejects Eni Call to Merge Europe Gas Pipelines

16.03.2010 (17:19) | Business Week

South Stream is “more competitive” than Nabucco, Shmatko told reporters in Moscow

10 Held For Nevsky Express Bombing

15.03.2010 (17:11) | The St. Petersburg Times

A Moscow court has sanctioned the arrest of 10 suspects in connection with November’s bombing of the Nevsky Express train that killed 28 people.