On October 1, 2023, from the Vorsino station of the Moscow Railway, Russian Post and Russian Railways sent a high-speed container train on the route Moscow–Novorossiysk–Moscow for a test run. In Novorossiysk, the railway service is connected to the accelerated sea lines of the SILMAR Group to India, the UAE and the countries of Southeast Asia . The train passed the route from Vorsino station to the Novorossiysk port faster than conventional container services, like a fast passenger train - 33 hours instead of more than 2 days. New rail transportation technology can become a high-quality alternative to road delivery on this route. Expedited container transport is possible due to the formation of a train from innovative fitting platforms designed to travel at speeds of up to 140 km/h. They were provided for transportation by JSC Federal Freight Company (a subsidiary of JSC Russian Railways). Russian Railways, together with PortExpress specialists, developed a special schedule and also prepared locomotives capable of achieving the specified speed limit. On its first voyage, a train of 20 high-speed cars will deliver 80 large-tonnage containers to the port. In Novorossiysk, container wil be loaded on vessels of international sea lines of the SILMAR Group. The operation of railway and sea terminals is integrated into a single technological process, which allows us to guarantee customers the maximum frequency of shipments and the shortest transit time. This significantly increases the speed of multimodal sea routes that connect Moscow with the ports of India, the UAE and Southeast Asia.

The vessel Silmar Spirit under the flag of Panama was taken into operation by SILMAR LINE on 14.06.2023. Silmar Spirit is able to carry refrigerated containers. The vessel itself has a deadweight over 30000 tones, and its capacity counts 1768 TEU. Ningbo became the first port that the vessel called under the new name, then it had visited other basic ports of China (Shanghai, Qingdao Shekou), as well as the port of Debel Ali and Mundra.

ECONOSHIP Line being a business partner of Silmar Group increases voyage frequency from Nhava-Sheva, India, to Novorossiysk. Containership BOSON with a deadweight over 22 thousand tones became a new vessel for this route by arriving to Novorossiysk seaport on August 5th. For the present moment ECONOSHIP Line is the only one operator, who provides direct shipping from India to Novorossiysk. Nord-star Agency LLC, part of Silmar Group, acts as liner agent for ECONOSHIP in Russia.

Silmar Logistic has announced the opening of a new warehousing facility in Novorossiysk. The warehouse is situated on a total area of more than 5 hectares and is classified as B+, with storage areas of 7 thousand square meters. The warehouse is equipped with a container platform that can accommodate up to 2500 TEU of simultaneous storage. This complex is one of the few warehouse complexes in Novorossiysk of this class that has a rack system. The warehouse provides the possibility of complex processing for various nomenclature cargo, and loading and unloading operations of any complexity are carried out.

From October 1, 2023, a new form of transit declaration will begin to operate in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), according to the website of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). It is provided both in traditional, paper and electronic form.

On June 1, a decision came into force, according to which domestic Chinese transit can be carried out through the Russian port of Vladivostok. The decision mainly concerns the northeastern Chinese provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which are landlocked.

Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will conduct an experiment on cargo transportation using electronic navigation seals. The corresponding resolution has already been signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin and published on the Official Internet portal of legal information. As can be understood from the text of the document, the pilot project will apply to all types of goods transported between countries by road and rail.