The Moscow City Government plans to expand its public river transport fleet to more than 100 electric vessels by 2030, Russian company State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) said recently.
STLC’s plan calls for about 60 vessels to operate across as many as seven regular routes. An additional 42 electric vessels will serve 11 excursion and pleasure routes.
The company identified Moscow Shipbuilding Yard, which opened in 2025, as the planned production base. The figures are forward-looking estimates rather than a count of vessels ordered or in service.
Moscow had 31 electric vessels and 25 piers across four regular routes as of August 31, 2026. The network covered about 34 kilometres and had carried approximately four million passengers during its first three years, city figures showed.
Moscow began regular electric river transport in June 2023. Its second route opened the following September, followed by a third in June 2025 and the Luzhniki–Kiyevsky route in June 2026.
The electric river ferries that entered service in 2023 were built by local shipyard Emperium.