OREANDA-NEWS. December 08, 2010. The fleet of the North-Western Shipping Company (NWSC) after the southern section of the Volga-Don canal was closed two days ago completed the navigation of 2010 on inland waterways, the company’s press office said.

From April 13 to December 5, the NWSC’s tugs fleet carried out 29 towing operations of large equipment shipped for development of the Caspian shelf, 16% more than a year ago. Two river-sea going vessels the Rusitch and the Sormovsky were delivering goods to the Caspian Sea this year.

The doubled the volume of metal shipment this year’s navigation in the southern basin - up to 70 tons, in North-West basin - by 2,5 times - to 160,000cbm, increased transportation of timber cargoes delivered from the ports of Lake Onega and the Volga-Baltic waterway to the ports of Sweden and Finland.