Russian government to fully subsidize seafood rail tariffs from Far East to Moscow
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Eugene Gerden Dec 15, 2014
The Russian government is completing design of measures, aimed at stabilizing of the current situation in the national fishery industry in 2015.
One of the most important of planned measures is full subsidization of rail tariffs for the transportation of fish from the Far East to the European part of the country at the capacities of local railway monopoly RZD. This will allow to organize regular supplies of certain fish species, and in particular herring and to refuse from further imports of more expensive herring from Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
In 2015 herring catch in the Russian Far East is expected to reach 450,000-470,000 tons. Domestic consumption is estimated at 400,000 tons, of which 120,000 tons accounted for imports, mostly Atlantic herring from the Nordic countries. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, due to sanctions, herring imports to Russia declined by 100,000 tons...
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