On November 17, 2016 the 9th Conference “Heavy Russia” took place in Moscow. Within 9 years the Conference has become the largest event in the branch, gaining recognition of business as a point of attraction of ideas and the venue for discussion of pressing issues. The Conference is the annual event and this year the Forum gathered over 320 delegates from 17 world countries: Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Germany, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and the USA.
The event was sponsored by FESCO, Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Instar Logistics, COMETTO, Gudzon Shipping Company and Port of Bronka.
The opening speech of the Conference was made by Marat Yarullin, Head of Sales Department, Fesco Transport Group. In his opinion, the last decade has drastically changed the landscape in logistics sphere on the whole and in project logistics sphere in particular. What is felt is the strong impact of the phenomenon called the market barbarization. Barbarization implies avoidance to follow regulatory requirements in combination with corruption covering this kind of avoidance. It means that if a carrier comes up with a legal shipping proposal it finds itself outside the market as its proposal is out of competition in terms of price and schedule if compared to offers of sketchy carriers acting with violation of all technical and ethical standards one could think of.
Avoidance of regulatory requirements and withdrawal into the shadows act as a big temptation for an entrepreneur and, as a rule, it cannot help resisting this temptation. Everything happens according to Milton Friedman’s covenants: a man always searches for money and benefit, right here and now. There is nothing new in this, but as a result, barbarization prevented from implementing the industry-specific standards.
Other project logistics trends reported by M. Yarullin are progression of bulky and heavy cargoes following geological exploration in the Arctic, active bulky transport market in Central Asia and the third trend is the crisis of major international carriers and re-orientation of clients towards middle-sized shipping companies.
The main activities in Russia are concentrated in the central regions, 90% of orders are ensured by power industry, and in the next ten years the energy sector activity related to modernization of main and additional capacities will remain. A number of large-scale projects are coming from chemical industry. On top of that, M. Yarullin highlighted the growth in export of oversize equipment. This is mainly power engineering and, to some extent, petrochemical equipment. Basically, the goods are exported through St. Petersburg.
Panel discussion “How to organize transportation of above-limit cargoes in compliance with the RF law” combined the representatives of the federal bodies and business society in a violent dispute. We would like to make specific mention of the speech made by Konstantin Sergeevich Ugarov, Director of Center for Monitoring of Safe Operation of Highways of the Federal Road Agency, who was standing up for the position of the state. During the discussion, K. Ugarov and his colleagues clarified on some regulations which are still questioned by the general public.
Another important topic of the Conference is development of wind energy in the country which is becoming a new oversize transport market in Russia. It is worth mentioning that by 2024 the wind power capacity in our country may come to 3.6 GW, while market turnover may reach RUB 200 billion. In less than 10 years, potential demand for construction of wind power plants in Russia, fabrication of wind mills, accessories, and operation and maintenance services will approach RUB 400 billion. Rosatom only intends to supply about 600 wind-driven generators with a total capacity of 1.6 GW to the Russian market in the next 6-7 years.
Another growing point for the transport and forwarding business is the status of specialized machinery production in Russia. This subject was covered by RosSpetsMash Association’s speech. Denis Maksimkin, Association Deputy Director, gave the following statistics: export of agricultural equipment from Russia in the first six months of 2017 increased by 1.5 times to RUB 4.1 billion. Exported harvesting machinery rose by 10.3% — to 1040 units, agricultural tractors – by 2.2 times to 178, post-harvest treatment machinery — by 63% to 194, sowing equipment — sevenfold to 407, tillage machinery — by 17.5% to 430. Main importers of Russian agricultural machinery in the first six months include CIS and European countries, China, Canada and Iran. At the moment, the geography of Russian equipment supplies covers more than 50 countries.
Russian Public Organization of small and medium enterprises “SUPPORT OF RUSSIA”
Scientific and Research Institute of Motor Transport
Siberian Motor Carriers Association
Panel discussion – How to Eliminate Bureaucratic and Administrative Obstacles on Oversized Cargo Carrier’s Way?
Chairpersons engaged in the discussion:
Center of Railway Technologies Negabarit
Volga-Dnepr Airlines
Instar Projects
RosSpetsMash Association
FESCO
Russian Association of Wind Power Industry
Universal Transport Moscow
ZapSibNeftekhim
TransEngineering Company
Scientific and Research Institute of Salvage and Underwater Technologies “Naval Academy”
Feniks (Multipurpose Reloading Complex Bronka)
SRO SpetsTyazhTrans
Baltica-Trans Group
Transportation and Logistics Federation of Iran
Russian Association of Specialized Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers – RosSpetsMash
SUPPORT OF RUSSIA (OPORA ROSSII)
SRO SpetsTyazhTrans
Russian Association of Wind Power Industry
Center for Monitoring of Safe Operation of Highways of the Federal Road Agency
Velesstroy
ASE (AtomStroyExport)
Mining Solutions
Mining Solutions
NeftegazMontazh
NIPIgazpererabotka
RUSAL
StankoPressMash
HD Energo
IntertechElektro Group
GE Rus
AsstrA Associated Traffic AG
Benchmark-logistics
Benchmark Trading
Benchmark-Transport
Blue Water Shipping (Denmark)
deugro Projects
IFC COLOS (Kazakhstan)
Highland Project Logistics (USA)
NAWINIA RUS
Schrudde Logistik GmbH (Germany)
AET Trans
Volga-Don-Transservice
Volgo-Baltic Logistic
Gazpromtrans
Baltica-Trans Group
GlobalTransAvto
Jenty Moscow
Euroimpex
Infotech Baltika
Keen-Mark-Logistic
Keystone Logistics
SibTransservice
К-Transgroup (Kazakhstan)
Kuehne + Nagel
Mammoet Rus
Militzer & Münch
MODUL
MORTRANS
Negabaritika
Negabarit-Yug
NOVOTEK Export
RIVEST-TRANS-SERVICE
ROLL KRAFT
RTL
SOP&G
Sovfracht
SMT
Stroitelnye Mashiny (Building Machines)
Tekhnologii Dvizheniya (Technologies of Movement)
TekhnoService
TMBCL
TRANSIT
TransLokatsiya
MG-Trans (Ukraine)
NevaSpetsTyazh
Pik-TRANSPORT
FORMAG Logistics
Universal Transport Saint Petersburg
Universal Forwarder
Chandler GmbH
Air Charter Service
Volga-Dnepr Airlines
AirBridgeCargo
Briese Chartering GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
DS-Multibulk GmbH (Germany)
Finnlines Plc (Finland)
HANSA HEAVY LIFT (Germany)
Ingria Shipping Ltd
Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers
Arkship
Gudzon Shipping Company
Morwenna Shipping Company
Port of Hamburg Marketing
Port of Bronka
Saint Peter’s Terminal
PUL Trans
TETRO EXP
Dmitry Osinovskiy, General Director
Center of Railway Technologies Negabarit
Seames
100 TONS SERVICE
TOPKRAN
Rigging and Installation Company “Tyani-Tolkay”
TransEngineering Company
Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik GmbH
Gidrolast Group
CERTEX RUS
Severstal Lifting Technologies