On August 25, 2010, Nils Andreas Masvie, Regional Director of DNV, presented to Igor Tonkovidov, CEO of OAO Novoship (Novorossiysk Shipping Company), certificates in confirmation of the fact that the company’s integrated management system complies with international standards. More information…

On behalf of the Alaska Pollack Producer Association, its President — Herman Zverev —made The Future of the Russian Fishery: Four Scenarios till 2018 report. More information…

On September 2, the Baltic Transport Forum opened in Kaliningrad. Among the participants of the forum, there are representatives of largest transport companies, heads of state offices of Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia and Kazakhstan. More information…

From August 5 till 12, the World Congress of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is held in Mexico. More information…

On June 28, 2010, in Saint-Petersburg a meeting of the committee of the Interregional Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Workers Union took place. Union leaders from Severodvinsk, Saint-Petersburg, Astrakhan and Kaliningrad were discussing execution of an agreement with United Shipbuilding Corporation. More information…

On July 28 in the course of the visit of Andrey Kraynev, head of the Federal Agency for Fishery of the Russian Federation, Roman Granatov, vice-speaker of the Kamchatka parliament and chairman of Fisheries, Natural Resources and Agricultural Policy Committee, declared need for expansion of coastal fishery zones at Kamchatka. More information…

On July 27 in Moscow, Annual General Meeting of Members of the National Association of Fishery Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters (VARPE) was held. More information…

Ukraine and Russia are ready to sign intergovernmental agreements concerning order and conditions of inland navigation and cooperation with regard to sea and air search and rescue operations in the Black and Azov seas. More information…

On the last July Sunday, Russian naval seamen celebrate their holiday. For the first time ever, a USSR government decree dated June 22, 1939, established the holiday. The Russian President decree dated May 31, 2006, this date is appointed to be the memorial day for the Russian Navy. More information…

The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine initiates listing of the Shipping Register of Ukraine into the list of classification societies recommended by UNECE for the purpose of its acknowledgment in accordance with the Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways. At the session of committee of experts representing treaty countries, a relevant petition was examined. More information…