Pacific Fleet divers (Pacific Fleet), the Navy Research Institute and a separate expedition detachment of divers aboard the Igor Belousov Pacific Fleet rescue ship dived in the Sea of Japan for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy and reached the depth of 416 meters.
The dive was carried out by the method of a long stay in the pressure chamber using a GVK-450 modern deep-water diving complex , located on board the vessel.
Under the control of specialists, the divers underwent...
The bulk of the company’s money was spent on upgrading and expansion of the company’s handling equipment. In the nine-month period TagSCP acquired a pair of full-slewing rail-mounted cranes RPS-640 with the capacity of up to 32 tonnes fitted with 10-cbm grabs. The...
Russia’s Ministry of Transport has declared changes concerning ice navigation criteria for the Northern Sea Route. These changes will apply from May 2019.
Currently, the typification of ice conditions is standard to seven crucial areas of the NSR. Typically, the averaged value of ice conditions concerning cohesive, thin ice within a large area does not allow vessels to navigate through that area. Yet, new zones with lower ice-class requirements are expected to optimize the placement of...
https://safety4sea.com/russia-changes-northern-sea-route-ice-class-requirements/
Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO) signed a contract regarding a five-year transportation of coal along the Northern Sea Route. The contract was signed between Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO) and Sibanthracite Overseas, a subsidiary of Russian coal company VostokCoal.
MSCO under this deal will be able to transit coal, produced in the Russian Arctic to Europe via the Northern Sea Route. Under this agreement, its vessels will transport large quantities of anthracite coal mined from Russia’s Taimyr...
https://safety4sea.com/murmansk-shipping-signs-contract-to-transfer-coal-through-arctic/
Murmansk Shipping Company, reportedly in financial trouble, has won an important lifeline. Sibanthracite Overseas, affiliated with Russia’s biggest coal holding VostokCoal, has tapped the polar shipping specialist to make one of the biggest transport projects in the Arctic. The companies have inked...
https://splash247.com/murmansk-shipping-wins-significant-arctic-coal-contract/
A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II maritime patrol aircraft. US Navy Photo
A Russian SU-27 intercepted a U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying in international airspace over the Black Sea today, the Navy announced.
The Russian jet conducted a high-speed pass directly in front of the EP-3 and then chased after it while the American plane tried to turn away, in what the U.S. Navy called an unsafe interaction.
“A U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying in international airspace over the Black Sea was intercepted by a...
https://news.usni.org/2018/11/05/navy-russian-su-27-intercepts-u-s-ep-3-black-sea-unsafe-manuever
With effect from December 1, 2018 Hapag-Lloyd will implement a winter surcharge for all shipments to and from St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga in Russia due to the additional costs related to serving these ports as a result of harsh weather, convoy restrictions, ice conditions etc.
| Winter Surcharge | WSU | in trades with USD ocean rates | USD 75 |
| Winter Surcharge | WSU | in trades with EUR ocean rates | EUR 70 |
This will be valid for...
Romanian Aegis Ashore site. U.S. Missile Defense Agency Photo
Converting Aegis Ashore facilities in Poland and Romania into land stations for cruise missile coupled with already available sea-based and air-launched missiles would complicate Kremlin planning on how to defend itself from attack or strike targets in Europe, a former U.S. defense official on Wednesday.
In a telephone conference call with reporters, Abraham Denmark, director of the Asia program at the Wilson Center and a former...
https://news.usni.org/2018/10/31/aegis-ashore-new-role-post-inf-treaty-says-former-pentagon-official
A view of the Port of Tuapse
Tuapse Sea Commercial Port nine-month cargo volumes totaled 9.4 million tonnes
The decrease should be attributed to a 24-percent decline in liquid bulk volume, to 3.76 million tonnes.
Positive trends remained in dry cargo segment — 5.7 million tonnes...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/01/tuapse-port-volumes/
The volume of cargo shipped along Russia’s Northern Sea Route this year is set to be up more than fivefold compared to five years ago. Some 13m tons of cargo has been shipped through this growing Arctic route as of October 1, according to statistics from Aleksandr Kalashnikov, the department head...