... by road at the Russian border, according to new regulations issued by the Federal Customs Service that will come into force in mid-June. The rules will require goods to be declared a minimum of two hours before arrival, Kommersant reported Monday. Freight delivered by air, train and sea will not be affected by the regulations. The new regulations could cut the wait from a current average of three hours to the European average of only 20 or 30 minutes, though it would mean more time spent preparing...

... Big Leningradka road development, a plan to upgrade the entire road from Tverskaya Ulitsa as far as Sheremetyevo Airport. Leningradka, as the highway is known to Muscovites, is the main road from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and is often overloaded with freight traffic between the two cities. Until the opening of the Aeroexpress rail link in 2010, it was also the only way to Sheremetyevo Airport, which lies on the road’s eastern side just north of Khimki. Since the opening of the railway line...

... used by airlines, he said by telephone. Airlines, however, are not allowed to maintain a database on passengers. The legislation that covers air travel, the Air Code, says airlines can "unilaterally terminate a contract to carry a passenger and freight" but cannot refuse to sell a ticket. In practice, this means that an airline can refuse to honor a return ticket held by a passenger who violated flight-safety rules during a previous segment of the trip, but the airline cannot refuse to...

... plans to double cargo shipping every year (annual turnover is currently 22.7 million tons), open a new car terminal with a capacity of 250,000 cars per year and invest about 52.5 billion rubles in rail links. By 2018 they even plan to construct a new freight airport for transferring cargo to Siberia and the Far East. Ust-Luga also hosts the terminal of the 1,100-kilometer Baltic Pipeline System 2, or BPS-2, built by Transneft as an alternative route to European markets after a trade dispute interrupted...

... Railroad goes through Krasnoyarsk, we have an international airport, which is second after the Frankfurt airport in terms of cargo traffic volumes for Lufthansa. We believe that a number of other companies could use the Krasnoyarsk airport for their freight operations.  Q: Which industries could be potentially attractive for investors? A: We have good potential to attract investors because the Krasnoyarsk region's economy has been radically diversified over the last three to four years away from...