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An estimated US$400M will be spent on the
3M TEU/year capacity Petkim Aegean
Gateway Terminal, managed by APM
Terminals under a 28-year concession deal
ductivity.” He expects the first phase of
the terminal to be fully operational in
2015 and said that it was being built
mainly to cater for the growing demands
of the local region.
Romanian growth
Back in the Black Sea area, a huge amount
of capital is being invested in Constantza,
Romania, the largest port in the region.
The government and the port authority
have been successful in getting access to
European Union (EU) financing, with
many of the latter’s construction and improvement
projects funded to the tune of
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PORT DEVELOPMENT
85% by the EU’s Operational Programme
for Transport 2007-13.
These include:
● Expansion of the northern breakwater
by 1,050m. The project will improve operating
performances and productivity
levels in the southern basin by decreasing
wave activity. It will be completed during
2014 and cost an estimated €144M.
● The €43M construction of a new road
bridge over the Danube Black Sea Canal
– this will provide a connection between
the northern and southern parts of the
port complex and, via the Constantza ring
road, a direct connection between the
port and the Bucharest/Constantza highway.
The work is scheduled to be completed
by the end of 2013.
● The creation of a so-called systematised
rail complex in the river/maritime sector
of the port. Estimated to cost €22M it
will be completed by the end of 2015
and will allow the port’s customers additional
and competitive options to move
their import/export cargo.
In the longer-term the port authority
is planning to expand the port by
building Pier IIIs and Pier IVs adjacent
to the current DP World-operated container
terminal.
According to National Company
Maritime Ports Administration SA
Constantza (MPA Constantza), the facilities
will be for specialised cargoes
and will be supported by a landside
logistics park. It is understood that the
Dutch Government is supporting the
project. Various designs are under study.
Danube gateway
Ambroziu Duma, port operations director
for MPA Constantza, is keen to exploit
the port’s strategic location at the
estuary of the Danube, believing that it
has opportunities as a gateway and load
centre, particularly for the trade lanes between
Asia and central Europe.
“Our 64.4 km long Danube Black Sea
canal offers a seamless connection to the
navigable waters of the river and can cut
a massive 4,165 km off Far East/Europe
routings via Benelux ports,” he said.
“That’s a huge saving on bunker costs for
ocean carriers and it’s much kinder to the
environment.”
Elsewhere in the Black Sea, developments
in the container handling sector
are more modest and typically involve
cargo handling equipment purchases, general
refurbishment and process improvement
schemes. Nonetheless, at Russia’s
Black Sea port of Novorossiysk significant
capacity increases are planned. Delco
group-owned NUTEP and Novoroslesexport,
owned by the Novorossiysk
Commercial Sea Port Group, are both in
the midst of substantial capacity investment
programmes at the port.
Novoroslesexport’s project involves
expenditure in excess of RUB6.5B
(US$207M). This covers the cost of
dredging its facilities at berths 28 and
28A, purchasing a third ship-to-shore
gantry crane, two mobile harbour
cranes and additional support equipment
for yard operations. A third rail
track will be constructed to boost
intermodal cargo movements. Overall,
container handling capacity will be
expanded to 700,000 TEU/year.
Meanwhile, NUTEP – which handled
215,307 TEU in 2012, up 7.6% on the
previous year – is set to increase its design
throughput capacity to 600,000
TEU/year by 2015. This will be achieved
by increasing the total berthing quay line
from 754m to 900m and expanding the
yard area to 35-ha.
Rail upgrade
Recently, NUTEP completed its rail upgrade
programme by constructing a new
yard and two loading/unloading tracks,
meaning the facility can now process two
block-trains each day. As the work meant
a reconfiguration of the terminal’s existing
rail network, the operator has been
able to raise the stacking capacity of its
yard to 11,000 TEU.
In the Ukraine, dredging is in place at
the country’s main sea ports and a 600,000
TEU/year deep water terminal is going
ahead in Odessa with HPC Ukraina, the
HHLA affiliate that operates the port’s
existing container terminal.
In Georgia, APMT and Manilaheadquartered
International Container
Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) are both
active, operating container terminals in
Poti and Batumi respectively. At the latter
port, ICTSI has the ability to quadruple
the facility’s current throughput capacity
to 400,000 TEU, a decision that will be
taken in line with demand.
At Poti, where APMT works with
Rakia, the terminal operator has
been investing in equipment, systems
and training programmes in an effort
to bring the terminal up to similar
safety and productivity levels to
other facilities in its global network.
While the trading and investment
opportunities in the region are encouraging,
its general economic volatility
means that uncertainty will prevail and
matching supply and demand will always
be extremely difficult. ❏
May 2013