Dear Sirs,
We are all expecting three upcoming events to affect project cargo delivery during OOG delivery season in 2018. First, the Navigation season-2018 opens as from the 1st of April in Volgograd and 20-th of April in St. Petersburg. Second, regular period of prohibition of trucking and heavyloads through main roads and highways. April in south and central regions, plus some May dates in northern and Siberia territories. Third, FIFA World Cup Russia-2018, starts from 15 June and last till 15 July 2018. Despite above 2 circumstances are regular and foreseen, all forwarders shall take in mind that Russian Minister of transport and authorities imply limitations on transportation by water and by roads during days nearby days of FIFA cup games in main cities: Volgograd, Kazan, Kalinigrad, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov on Don, Sochi.
The above limitations shall be taking in mind during planning of delivery of all oog cargoes destined to main industrial regions of European part of Russia, as well as to cargoes shipped via Volgodon channel to Caspian Sea.
Below you can find detailed data.
With best regards
Glogos project.
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The navigation season-2018 opens soon: Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport had published the dates for operation of navigable hydraulic structures for the period of navigation 2018. The current schedules of the locks are here:
Timelines of locks on the Volga River:
From 1 April to 25 November – the locks of the Volzhskaya water-power plant in Volgograd;
From 7 April to 24 November – the locks of the Saratov water-power plant in Balakovo;
From 22 April to 20 November – the locks of the Zhigulevskaya water-power plant in Togliatti;
From 24 April to 20 November – the locks of Cheboksary water-power plant;
From 24 April to 14 November – the locks of the Uglich water-power plant;
From 25 April to 17 November – the locks of the Rybinskaya water-power plant;
From 25 April to 19 November – the locks of the Nizhny Novgorod water-power plant.
Timelines of navigation on the Don and Volga-Don Shipping Channel:
From 1 April to 27 November – the locks № 1-№15 of the Volga-Don Channel;
From 1 April to 27 November – Nikolaevsky lock on the Don River;
From 1 April to 27 November – Konstantinovsky lock on the Don River;
From 1 April to 27 November – Kochetkovsky lock on the Don River.
Timelines of navigation on the Moscow Channel and the locks on the Moscow River:
From 24 April to 14 November – the locks №1-№10 of the Moscow Channel;
From 24 April to 14 November – 5 locks of Moskvoretskaya system.
Timelines of locks on the Oka River:
From 24 April to 14 November – the lock of the water-power plant Beloomut;
From 24 April to 14 November – the lock of the water-power plant Kuzminsk.
Timelines of operation of locks on the Kama:
From 25 April to 10 November – the locks of the Nizhnekamsk water-power plant in Naberezhnye Chelny;
From 30 April to 3 November – the locks of the Votkinskaya water-power plant in Tchaikovsky;
From 5 May to 1 November – the locks of the Kamskaya water-power plant in Perm.
Timelines of operation of locks on the Volga-Baltic waterway:
From 30 April to 15 November – the locks №1-№8 of the Volga-Baltic Shipping Channel;
From 30 April to 15 November the – the locks of the Nizhne-Svirskaya water-power plant on the Svir River;
From 30 April to 15 November – the locks of Verkhne-Svirskaya water-power plant on the Svir River.
Timelines of locks on the White Sea-Baltic Channel:
From 20 May to 31 October – the locks №1-№9;
From 20 May to 15 October – the locks №10-№19.
Timelines of navigation on the Seversky Donets River within the boundaries of the Seversko-Donetsk system:
From 25 April to 20 November – the locks №2 of the SDSS;
From 25 April to 20 November – the locks №3 of the SDSS;
From 29 April to 18 October – the locks №4 of the SDSS;
From 2 May to 9 October – the locks №5 of the SDSS;
From 5 May to 30 September – the locks №6 of the SDSS;
From 8 May to 22 September – the locks №7 of the SDSS.
From 5 May to 15 October is operation of locks on the North-Dvinsky Channel (locks №2-№7);
From 5 May to 31 October the Volkhov water-power plant will operate on the Volkhov River;
From 3 May to 31 October – Pavlovsky lock on the Ufa River;
From 15 April to 1 November – Voronezhsky lock on the Voronezh River;
From 10 April to 1 November – Fedorovsky lock on the River Kuban;
From 6 April to 23 October – the locks on the Manych – Ust-Manych, Veselovky and Proletarsky River;
From 10 May to 21 September – the locks on the Novosibirsk water-power plant on the Ob River.
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Region Period Limit:
Altay region 1-30 April max 6 mt per axel
Amur region 24 April – 25 May max 6 mt per axel
Archangel region 3 April – 24 May max 3.5 mt per axel
Astrakhan region 20 March – 21 April max 5-10 mt per axel
Bashkortastan 1-30 April max 4-6 mt per axel
Belgorod region 13 March – 11 April max 6 mt per axel
Bryansk region 15 March- 13 April max 4 mt per axel
Vladimir region 1 – 30 April max 3-6 mt per axel
Vologda region 10 – 19 April max 6 mt per axel
Volgograd region 27 March – 25 April max 5 mt per axel
Ekaterinburg 15 April – 16 May max 4-8 mt per axel
Ivangorod region 10 April – 9 May max 3-6 mt per axel
Irkutsk region 17 April – 17 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Каzan 15 April – 14 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Kaliningrad region 1 March – 15 April max 5 mt per axel
Kalmykia 25 March – 25 April max 4-6 mt per axel
Kaluga 1 – 30 April max 4-6 mt per axel
Kamchatka 1 – 30 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Karelian 15 April – 22 May max 4 mt per axel
Kemerovo 27 March – 25 April max 6 mt per axel
Kirovsk region 20 April 19 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Kostroma region 10 April 9 May max 8 mt per axel
Krasnoyarsk 17 April – 26 May max 4-5 mt per axel
Kurgan 15 April – 14 May max 5 mt per axel
Kursk region 20 March – 18 April max 6 mt per axel
Leningrad region 1-30 Апрель max 3-5 mt per axel
Lipetsk region 20 March – 18 April max 6 mt per axel
Mariy El 10 April – 9 May max 6 mt per axel
Moscow region 15 April – 30 April max 3-9 mt per axel
Murmansk region 30 April – 29 May max 6 mt per axel
Nizhniy Novgorod region 1 – 30 April max 6 mt per axel
Novgorod region 7 April – 6 May max 4.5 mt per axel
Novosibirsk 17 April – 16 May max 6-7 mt per axel
Omsk region 7 April – 6 May max 10 mt per axel
Orenburg region 20 March – 28 April max 6 mt per axel
Orel region 3 April – 2 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Penza 9 April – 1 May max 6 mt per axel
Perm region 10 April – 16 May max 5-7 mt per axel
Primorskiy krai 15 April – 14 May max 6 mt per axel
Pskov region 13 March – 13 April max 3.5-5 mt per axel
Altai 1 – 30 April max 4-5 mt per axel
Rostov region 15 April – 14 May max 5-7 mt per axel
Saratov region 3 April – 30 April max 5 mt per axel
Samara region 1 – 30 April max 7 mt per axel
Smolensk region 20 March – 18 April max 5 mt per axel
Stavropol region 3 April – 2 May max 6 mt per axel
Tambov region 1 – 30 April max 6 mt per axel
Tatarstan 15 April – 14 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Tomsk region April – 15 May max 6 mt per axel
Ulianovsk region 1 – 30 April max 6 mt per axel
Udmurtia 1 – 30 April max 6 mt per axel
Khabarovsk region 1 April – 23 May max 4-6 mt per axel
Khakasia 10 April – 9 May max 5 mt per axel
HMAO 24 April – 24 May max 8 mt per axel
Chelyabinsk region 12 April -15 May max 6 mt per axel
Chuvashia 3 April до 2 May max 2-6 mt per axel
Yaroslavl region 10 April – 10 May max 6 mt per axel
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According to Rosmorrechflot, the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport agreed on restrictions for the stay and movement of ships and small boats in the water areas of 8 cities, hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup events.
The set of measures in the draft order of the Minister of transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov, is developed in accordance with the subparagraph “b” of paragraph 2 of the draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation “on the features of enhanced security measures during the FIFA world Cup 2018 FIFA confederations Cup 2017”.
The restrictions will be introduced:
in Volgograd 18, 22, 25, 28 June from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the area of the water area near the right Bank of the Volga river, bounded by a circle radius of 0.7 km with a center at the stadium ” Volgograd arena»;
in Kazan 16, 20, 24, 27, 30 June and 6 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the waters of the Kazanka river from the railway bridge to the Millennium bridge;
in Kaliningrad 16, 22, 25 and 28 June from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the waters of the Pregolya and Staraya Pregolya rivers from the second overpass bridge to the Eastern overpass;
in Moscow, 14, 17, 20, 26 June and 1, 11, 15 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the waters of the Moscow river from the luzhnetsky Naberezhnaya Berezhkovskaya from bridge to bridge Novoanninskogo, and 16, 19, 23, 27 June and 3 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the waters of the Moscow river from the Spassky bridge (44.7 km) to the Stroginsky bridge (40.5 km) and the Moscow canal from the river Moscow (40.6 km) to the Skhodnenskaya channel (44 km);
in Nizhny Novgorod 18, 21, 24, 27 June, 1 and 6 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the water area near the right Bank of the Volga river, a limited area of the circle radius of 0.7 km with the center at the ” Nizhny Novgorod Stadium»;
in Rostov-on-Don 17, 20, 23, 26 June and 2 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the waters of the don river from Voroshilov bridge to the Meridian line passing through the Eastern tip of the Green island;
in St. Petersburg 15, 19, 22, 26 June, 3, 10 and 14 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time on the site of the water area adjacent to Krestovsky island;
in Sochi 15, 18, 23, 26, 30 June and 7 July from 12.00 to 24.00 local time in the Black sea, adjacent to the city of Sochi, a limited arc circumference radius of 10 kilometers with the center at the stadium “Fisht”.