Russian cargo carriers count on postponement of amendments to Code of Administrative Violations (CоАV), which came into force in early August 2007. Last week, St. Petersburg carriers sent a telegram to the RF Transport Ministry with a request to suspend effect of Article 12.21 of CоАV till the Ministry introduces new rules for transportation of large-sized and heavy cargo

A competition for construction of St. Petersburg's Orlovski Tunnel, which is to link the two banks of the Neva river nearby Orlovskaya street and Piskaryovski prospect, will be announced on September 12th. According to experts, once the Orlovski Tunnel is put into operation, the capacity of the Volga-Baltic canal will increase 1.2 times

New deep-water port is to be built near Archangelsk within 5-7 years. At the first stage the port’s annual capacity is to make 15-20 million tonnes of cargo with further increase to 50 million tonnes

Ust-Luga Company operating the project for construction of Russia’s largest port complex is headed by a new Director General today. Yuri Pognayev, earlier Technical Manager of Ust-Luga Company JSC is currently the company’s acting Director General. Mr. Pogrnayev has been interviewed by PortNews IAA

Nikolai Asaul, new Chairman of St. Petersburg Transport-and-Transit Policy Committee, tells PortNews IAA about how to put the strategy for transport-and-logistics complex development into practice as well as on city’s attitude to the use of existing port territories

The problem of multi-hour truck queues at Russian-Latvian border is not likely to be solved within two or three years. Despite the efforts of Russia and EU members, which try to take the situation under control, the carriers are to take into account about two additional days when planning their entry to Russia

Blending can surely be acknowledged as a new stage in production of oil products. It implies mixing of products under certain conditions. Tommy Christensen, partner and managing director of CBI Engineering A/S, tells about the advantages of CBI blenders

The IMO decided that the North Sea SOx Emission Control Area (SECA) will enter into force in 2007. At the same time, the European Union has included the North Sea SECA regulations in their amended low sulphur directive EC 2005/33

Russia’s nature supervision watchdog RosPrirodNadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Usage) increased fines for spills of oil and oil products 10 times from July 20, 2007

Estonia-based holding company AS Alexela Logistics acquired 100% of shares of AS Sillamae Oil Terminal (SOT, Estonia) on Monday, July 3rd. New owners of the terminal believe they can increase the amount of cargo handled by the Sillamae Oil Terminal to 2 million tonnes by the end of this year