April 22, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation developed KTsKh-PKM25/0.4, a new tank container with barrel made of composite materials. According to the corporation’s press service, the tank container has no counterparts anywhere else in the world and is a promising new product that will enjoy great demand on the isotainer market: at the moment, the only containers available for multimodal freight forwarding are steel ones. The innovative tank container is meant for transportation of hazardous cargo (including hydrochloric and ortho-phosphoric acids and natron) by automobile, sea, and 1,520-mm

April 22, 2015. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) coordinated the second audit procedure at its aviation goods department and its authorized central testing lab. The audit was conducted by Material (an agency approved by the Interstate Aviation Committee’s Aviation Register), PNTZ press service reports. The company says the Interstate Aviation Committee experts spoke very highly of the plant’s data selection, processing, and analysis system, its unfailing product quality and technology, and great skills of the staff in charge. At the end of the audit

April 22, 2015. Russia’s GDP dropped by about 2% in the first quarter of 2015 compared with a year earlier, Interfax refers to Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev as saying at the State Duma meeting on Tuesday. According to Medvedev, the industrial output decreased by 0.4% compared with Q1’14. ‘All this isn’t the worst of the possible scenarios. To be frank, the situation with prices, unemployment, the banking system, and many branches of industry could be more complicated and threatening,’ Medvedev said. He added that the country had gone through ‘much more serious problems’ in 2009, when its GDP

April 22, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s stock of cattle went down by 1.3% (278,900 head of cattle) in March 2015 compared with March 2014, Sverdlovskstat reports. Pig livestock came to 332,400 (-1.3%), that of sheep and goats came to 64,600 (-3.8%), while poultry stock rose by 3.8% and amounted to 13.8m.

April 22, 2015. 20% of Yekaterinburg residents are planning to go abroad for their vacations this year, E1.Rabota’s research team states. 25% intend to stay in town, 31% will head for their dachas or countryside B&Bs, and 24% of respondents said they are going to travel around Russia. Based on the last year’s survey findings, 18% of Yekaterinburg dwellers haven’t had a vacation for over two years, and 9%of those surveyed said they only used 50% of their vacations. 42% take some time off conventionally, that is, for two weeks twice a year. 14% of respondents said one month’s paid holiday