Valery Radayev, head of Saratov Region, visited Balakovo town and inspected “Voskhod” passenger motorship, which will shuttle along Saratov-Balakovo-Khvalynsk route.
In the coming two or three years all Astrakhan river fleet including crafts, motor boats and small-sized vessels will be equipped with GLONASS navigation systems. These navigation terminals will help to continuously track ships in inland waterways. Virtually all large-sized river vessels have already been connected to GLONASS satellite-based navigation system.
On March 14, 2017 German Vyacheslavovich Yelyanushkin was appointed Head of “Channel Named After Moscow” federal state budgetary institution in accordance with Instruction №28/k-mrf of the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport as of March 14, 2017.