Over three days, thousands of guests visited the stand of Silmar Group - including representatives of Russian and international logistics, government structures, and experts in logistics and foreign trade. Dozens of meetings were held with clients and representatives of container lines. Within the special SkladTech project organized at the TransRussia 2024 venue, meetings took place with various manufacturers and players in the warehouse and handling equipment market. A series of successful trilateral negotiations allowed for discussions on both current commercial and operational issues, as well as projects in the nearest future, for further advancement in the logistics services market. Exhibition participants made new acquaintances, learned about upcoming market trends, summarized their cooperation, and identified the vectors for further business development with partners. The exhibition served as further evidence that modern Russian logistics competently handles new challenges and successfully adapts to new realities.

The Sylmar group of companies has been participating in the TransRussia exhibition since 2012. Over the years, work at the TransRussia exhibition has provided an opportunity to simultaneously solve a number of problems. The company expanded partnerships, scaled up in the market and implemented new formats of cooperation. The exhibition allows you to evaluate market trends, customer needs and solutions in the field of transport logistics, and opportunities to promote your own products and brand. The main goals of Sylmar participation this year: -Promotion of services of agented Lines; -Brand development in the market of sea carriers, forwarders, customs brokers; -Meetings with regular and potential clients. The Silmar group of companies invites colleagues and partners to join the exhibition. Together we will be able to discuss prospects for development and cooperation. You can find us: Pavilion 3, Hall 14, Stand B4117. Our company’s individual promotional code for registering partners and clients: tr24eRPRO.

On March 19, the TransRussia exhibition, the largest exhibition of transport and logistics services, equipment and technologies in Russia and the CIS, will open on the territory of the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center. Every year the exhibition has more than 400 participating companies from 22 countries. TransRussia provides opportunities to both study the transport and logistics market and find new business partners, as well as establish contacts with leading specialists and experts in the industry. During the exhibition, participants will be able to discuss trends, exchange experiences and share real cases for solving business problems facing the market. The exhibition exposition contains 12 sections, concentrating all types of services offered by companies in the field of transport logistics: - Comprehensive logistics services and freight forwarding; - Air cargo transportation; - Road transportation; - Railway companies and rail freight operators; - Sea and river transportation; - Ports and terminals, cargo handling services in ports; - Logistics, distribution centers and terminals; - Oversized transportation and project cargo; - Services (customs, financial, support, security); - IT solutions; - Machinery, equipment and components; - Logistics for e-commerce. The Silmar group of companies invites colleagues and partners to join the exhibition. Together we will be able to discuss prospects for development and cooperation. You can find us: Pavilion 3, Hall 14, Stand B4117.

Starting with December SILMAR SHIPPING containership service between Russia and India enwidens the geography of port calls. Responding to market needs, SILMAR SHIPPING decided to add port calls to Jebel Ali, the UAE and Karachi, Pakistan to the originally existing route Novorossiysk - Mundra. Rotation of the modernized service will be: Novorossiysk – Jebel Ali – Karachi – Mundra – Novorossiysk. Due to service update transit time for declared route has been changed as well. Service transit time: Novorossiysk – Jebel Ali – 14 days; Novorossiysk – Karachi – 18 days; Novorossiysk – Mundra – 20 days; Mundra – Novorossiysk – 17 days.

On October 1, 2023, from the Vorsino station of the Moscow Railway, Russian Post and Russian Railways sent a high-speed container train on the route Moscow–Novorossiysk–Moscow for a test run. In Novorossiysk, the railway service is connected to the accelerated sea lines of the SILMAR Group to India, the UAE and the countries of Southeast Asia . The train passed the route from Vorsino station to the Novorossiysk port faster than conventional container services, like a fast passenger train - 33 hours instead of more than 2 days. New rail transportation technology can become a high-quality alternative to road delivery on this route. Expedited container transport is possible due to the formation of a train from innovative fitting platforms designed to travel at speeds of up to 140 km/h. They were provided for transportation by JSC Federal Freight Company (a subsidiary of JSC Russian Railways). Russian Railways, together with PortExpress specialists, developed a special schedule and also prepared locomotives capable of achieving the specified speed limit. On its first voyage, a train of 20 high-speed cars will deliver 80 large-tonnage containers to the port. In Novorossiysk, container wil be loaded on vessels of international sea lines of the SILMAR Group. The operation of railway and sea terminals is integrated into a single technological process, which allows us to guarantee customers the maximum frequency of shipments and the shortest transit time. This significantly increases the speed of multimodal sea routes that connect Moscow with the ports of India, the UAE and Southeast Asia.

The vessel Silmar Spirit under the flag of Panama was taken into operation by SILMAR LINE on 14.06.2023. Silmar Spirit is able to carry refrigerated containers. The vessel itself has a deadweight over 30000 tones, and its capacity counts 1768 TEU. Ningbo became the first port that the vessel called under the new name, then it had visited other basic ports of China (Shanghai, Qingdao Shekou), as well as the port of Debel Ali and Mundra.

ECONOSHIP Line being a business partner of Silmar Group increases voyage frequency from Nhava-Sheva, India, to Novorossiysk. Containership BOSON with a deadweight over 22 thousand tones became a new vessel for this route by arriving to Novorossiysk seaport on August 5th. For the present moment ECONOSHIP Line is the only one operator, who provides direct shipping from India to Novorossiysk. Nord-star Agency LLC, part of Silmar Group, acts as liner agent for ECONOSHIP in Russia.

Silmar Logistic has announced the opening of a new warehousing facility in Novorossiysk. The warehouse is situated on a total area of more than 5 hectares and is classified as B+, with storage areas of 7 thousand square meters. The warehouse is equipped with a container platform that can accommodate up to 2500 TEU of simultaneous storage. This complex is one of the few warehouse complexes in Novorossiysk of this class that has a rack system. The warehouse provides the possibility of complex processing for various nomenclature cargo, and loading and unloading operations of any complexity are carried out.

From October 1, 2023, a new form of transit declaration will begin to operate in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), according to the website of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). It is provided both in traditional, paper and electronic form.

On June 1, a decision came into force, according to which domestic Chinese transit can be carried out through the Russian port of Vladivostok. The decision mainly concerns the northeastern Chinese provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which are landlocked.

Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will conduct an experiment on cargo transportation using electronic navigation seals. The corresponding resolution has already been signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin and published on the Official Internet portal of legal information. As can be understood from the text of the document, the pilot project will apply to all types of goods transported between countries by road and rail.