Russian seaports may return to the use of dry cargo ships, which have been gradually abandoned since the 1980s.

Russian ports

The reason for this is the massive withdrawal of the international container business from the country against the backdrop of sanctions imposed by civilized countries against Russian aggression in Ukraine. It is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to abnews.

“We will not be completely without cargo, some apples or beef from Argentina will be loaded onto dry cargo ships and across the Pacific Ocean will be transported to Russia. But the pace of development of the country’s economy will lead to the degradation of the methods of delivery of goods, says Vadim Volozhanin, head of the Moscow division of Asia-L LLC. “Thus, we can easily go back to the 80s, when in Russia they didn’t even know about containers, although it was a common method of transportation around the world. If we are now disconnected from the global container business, we will quickly slide back 40 years.”

The representative of the transport company noted that the replacement of container ships with dry cargo “will increase the time and human costs for servicing one cargo by dozens of times.”

As previously reported, the world leaders in the field of container transportation, Maersk, CMA CGM and others, left the Russian Federation.

Subsequently, the EU countries and the USA closed their ports for Russian ships.

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