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Today, April 30^th 2015, a conference on the upcoming 2015 cruise season and on Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg development prospects was held at the press-centre of Interfax North-West news agency.

The head of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC Serik Zhusupov has highlighted the main lines of development for Passenger port of Saint Petersburg and has noted that all the main performance indicators of the company are expected to improve in 2015, especially emphasizing the fact that St. Petersburg became the best cruise destination offering quality tourist programs for groups, according to the British magazine Cruise Insight.

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The 2015 summer cruise season at Passenger port of Saint Petersburg will begin on May 2nd with the call of Costa Pacifica cruise ship, Carnival Corporation and plc, that will bring over 3 000 passengers. During the season at least 232 cruise vessel calls are expected, and the total passenger traffic of 498 000 people will exceed the 2014 figure by 3%. The final vessel call of the season is on October 19th 2015, when Marco Polo cruise ship of Global Cruises visits Passenger port of Saint Petersburg.

Other performance results are also expected to improve. The amount of additional services provided to vessels such as fresh water bunkering, waste water and garbage reception will inc...

Thursday April 30th at 12h00 a press-conference on the plans for 2015 cruise season and Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg development prospects will be held at the press center of "Interfax" news agency (38 Sadovaya str.).

The participants of the press-conference are: Head of FGBU "AMP of the Baltic Sea" Petr Parinov, Captain of Passenger port of Saint Petersburg Yuri Orlov, Chair of St. Petersburg Committee on Transport Alexander Vorobyev, Deputy Chair of St. Petersburg Committee on Tourism Development Nana Gvichiya, Chair of "Passenger port of Saint Petersburg" State border checkpoint coordinating council Alexander Timofeev, Head of "Passenger

The “TransRussia” futsal cup is held annually for the last five years among the largest transport industry establishments of Russia and neighboring countries. In 2015 the tournament, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in The Great Patriotic War, has brought together 10 teams, and on April 26th 2015 they competed for the title of the strongest.

The team of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Façade” PLC participated in matches against the teams of “Cargo Logictic”, “Gazprom Invest”, “NanoProtech”, “Primorsk Oil Terminal”. The team of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg &

On April 24 2015 an exercise of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC on implementation of the Transport Security Plan for the “Marine terminal of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC” was conducted. During the exercise the staff of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC and of other organizations present at the facility have practiced the appropriate actions to be taken in cases of direct and immediate threats to the facility. The order of notifying the competent authorities in such cases was practiced as well, and timing of actions was checked.

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Representatives of tour operators had an opportunity to familiarize with the reports of Captain of the seaport "Passenger Port of St. Petersburg", representatives of the Transport Committee of St. Petersburg, Committee for Tourism of St. Petersburg as well as government regulatory authorities.

Representatives of "PP of SPb MF" PLC noted the readiness of infrastructure of Passenger Port of St. Petersburg to receive passengers in the summer navigation in 2015 and informed the meeting participants about the issues arising in the course of servicing cruise and ferry vessels.

According to the approved schedule, this year the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg

Today, 15th of April, as part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Veterans of the Great Patriotic War as well as the associates of Institute of Oceanology visited Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.

Representatives of Passenger port shared with the guests history of the Port, its current activities and plans for the navigation in 2015.

Today on April 10th in the lead-up to the beginning of the 2015 cruise season Chairman of the Saint Petersburg Committee on Transport Alexandr Vorobiev held a retreat at Passenger port of Saint Petersburg.

Representatives of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Façade” PLC, city regulatory authorities and other stakeholders of St. Petersburg cruise tourism have presented their reports.

Chairman of the Saint Petersburg Committee on Transport Alexandr Vorobiev concluded the meeting by thanking the participants for their work and noted everyone’s interest in achieving the established goals.

Representatives of “Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC made a presentation at the V International Forum “Transport Security” that takes place in St. Petersburg on March 25th-26th 2015.

During the “Marine and river transport functioning safety” work session the “Setting up cooperation with state control bodies and transport security forces: case of “PP SPb MF” PLC marine terminal” report was presented by Alexander Oleynik, the Deputy Director of Transport Security at “PP SPb MF” PLC.

After the presentation forum participants’ questions concerning transport and water area security were answered. Forum moderator has highlig...

Every year since 2005 Russian Commercial Port Association holds the “Best stevedoring company” contest and chooses the winners in different categories. “Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg “Marine Fa?ade” PLC was named the best company of 2014 in the passenger operations category. This is the second such award for “PP SPB MF” PLC – the company won the first one in 2012.

Among the criteria for assessment of contest participants in the passenger operations category is the volume of passenger turnover and its growth throughout the reporting period. During the 2014 cruise season Passenger port of Saint Petersburg has received 234 cruise and 5 ferry vessels that broug...

“Under the electric clouds” directed by Aleksei German Jr. won the Silver Bear award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The award was presented to cameramen Yevgeny Privin and Sergei Mikhalchuk for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography. Some scenes of the movie were shot on the territory of Passenger port of Saint Petersburg.

The story unfolds in Russia of 2017 on the brink of a civil war. The novellas of the poetic drama “Under the electric clouds” tell about the lives of very different people with different social backgrounds. “It was important for us to grasp, through interlacement of people’s stories, the feeling