Russian imports of crushed stone increases

According to the Federal Customs Service (FCS), crushed stone imports exceeded 25.567 million tonnes worth US$399.2 million (€294.77 million) in 2013, compared with less than 25 million tonnes in 2012. Ukraine was the leader in terms of supplies and accounted for 86% of imports. Norway took the second place (6%) and Belarus the third (4%). Crushed stone was also imported from Kazakhstan (2%), Sweden (1%), and Turkey.

April 4, 2014 Read time: 1 min

Quarry Products

Russia imports 22.509mn tonnes aggregates first 10 months of 2014

According to Russia’s Federal Customs Service, the imports of aggregate to the country reached around 22.509 million tonnes 1 January - 31 October 2014. Some 79.3% of the total were imported from Ukraine. The aggregate import level from this country has not changed for the past few months. Ukraine is followed by the Belarus Republic, Norway, Kazakhstan, Finland, and Sweden. The value of the imports totalled slightly over €280.54 million.

March 5, 2012

Russian market expands as SME culture grows

The biggest country in the world, with probably the most diverse geology, Russia is also a relative newcomer to some of the Western business practices and attitudes that its global counterparts take for granted. After the collapse of communism, Russia had no SME style businesses as we see them in the West - dynamic and aggressive developers of new markets and ideas that can move geographically and economically to fill voids in the marketplace.