World Trade Center Navi Mumbai organized a Symposium on the theme "Indo-Russian Trade & Investment Opportunities" on January 23, 2025.  The session began with Mr. Jayant Ghate, Advisor, WTC Navi Mumbai welcoming the participants and giving insights about WTC Navi Mumbai. He also shared a an overview of historical ties and the India-Russia bilateral relationship, emphasizing recent trade trends such as the trade in crude petroleum in rupees which is very much beneficial for India.

The session featured two distinguished speakers who made a detailed presentation, giving the participants their valuable insights. Mr.Harshwadan Parikh WTC Faculty shed light  upon Export Import Scenario with Russia, emphasizing on the major export and import items, highlighted major opportunities in Electricals & Electronics Trade and other sectors, companies that can be crucial in helping exporters and importers expanding into Russian market etc.

 Mr. Saurabh Bajpeyee, Founder of CapitalBoats talked about the strong India-Russia economic ties, with bilateral trade reaching $65.7 billion in FY 2023-24, driven by Indian exports like pharmaceuticals and machinery and imports dominated by petroleum and fertilizers. He also highlighted about Investments which primarily focused on sectors such as energy, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure, with both nations aiming for diversification. He also mentioned about the MoU his company CapitalBoats signed with Russian Government organization at the WTC Moscow during October 2024 for the purpose of bringing in FDI from Russia worth Rs. 1000 cr into Indian sectors such as Infrastructure, Energy, Fintech etc.

This was followed by a Q & A session and lively discussion. The event served as a knowledge sharing platform with the purpose to connect people looking to expand and explore into Russian market. Mr. Jitendra Sakpal of Rise Capital proposed vote of thanks.

To sum up, the meeting was quite insightful and left room for further discussions and future collaboration.