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PORTs & MARiTiME lOGisTiCs Three liners, the Kalana, the Dirhami and the Atair J, at the quay of Muuga CT. Estonian ports show flexibility The pressure coming from outside Estonia has forced the ports to be flexible. The loss of the flow of some article may force a single terminal to its knees, but a certain loss of cargo turnover has forced terminals and ports alike to reorganise their operations. ESTONIA The downward trend of the cargo turnover of Estonian ports coincides with the massive propaganda attack of Russia against Estonia. The transit of Russian energy carriers has been affected the most. Transit of oil products has decreased noticeably, transit of coal is virtually nonexistent and car riage of fertilisers and metals has decreased. However, handling trucks and containers continues to increase. Carriage difficulties and presumably also political pressure has forced Russian businessmen, who have invested in Estonia, to adjust their investment plans. Some terminals have been sold and some have had to suspend their operations, the ports reduce the pace of construction of new structures and are looking for new trade flows. The advantage of Estonian ports has been a good railway connection with ports that have a suitable depth for large vessels. The changed situation has forced Russian businessmen to find other export routes – cargo arriving from Russia by sea is a new phenomenon. Political railway Last winter, the Estonian state bought Estonian Railways back from private owners, but after privatisation two new railway operators had emerged. Now Estonian Railways receives half of the trains from the Russian border, compared to the prior situation, and half of the trains are those of other operators. The decline in the cargo turnover has been somewhat compensated by carriage of Estonian origin, which has shifted from roads to railways. These can, in turn, be attributed to long queues of trucks on the EstonianRussian border. 44 sCAnDinAviAn sHiPPinG GAZETTE • OCTOBER 26, 2007 MADli viTisMAnn
Transit 1,000 t � 2005 � 2006 � 2007 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 Jan Mar May Jul Sep Source: Source: Port of Tallinn Source: Port of Tallinn Figures from the last three years from Port of Tallinn. in all three graphs, in May 2007, the turnover curve loses its usual zig-zag-shape and instead points straight down. Text Instead of the average 30.5 trains, 16.1 trains crossed the border in August. In September the transit volume was 42 per cent lower than a year ago. Thereby the cargo of both Russian operators, i.e. Severstaltrans’s subsidiaries Spacecom and Westgate Transport, reaches Estonia without problems and the volume thereof continues to grow. The carriage schedules where the carrier is Estonian Railways are not approved by Russia. The European Parliament drew attention to the problem that Russia discriminates against Baltic ports with different railway tariffs. Port of Sillamäe is expanding Nov The Port of Sillamäe, which was opened two years ago, is already constructing Stage II, a breakwater and new berths. Tankchem’s chemical terminal has worked only half a year and cannot take advantage of its modern capabilities, because Russian fertiliser producer Eurochem had planned for the delivery of methanol and liquid fertilisers by railway. The terminal has been inactive since May regardless of the fact that the owner has cargo and a terminal – they simply cannot bring their cargo across the border to Estonia. In the summer the Sillamäe Oil Terminal, which was built at the expense of the port owners, was sold to the owner of Alexela Terminal, who imports oil products Liquid cargo 1,000 t � 2005 � 2006 � 2007 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 Jan Mar y2007 y2006 y2005 May Jul Sep Nov by sea and exports it in large batches after processing. Last autumn, over 3,000 cars were quickly unloaded from car carrier Grande Italia, but their transportation on trailers over the border proved to be timeconsuming. Therefore half of the cars was taken to Kotka by a roro vessel and sent to Russia from there. The cargo turnover of the Port of Sillamäe in the first nine months of this year was 1.4 million tons. Terminals reform the lines Severstaltrans, which had bought AS E.O.S. (Estonian Oil Service) in Muuga, merged its terminal with the latter and wanted to buy up Pakterminal and Eurodek. The owners of Pakterminal rejected the offer and continue on their own. Eurodek has new owners, but now Severstaltrans is looking for a buyer for E.O.S. Dekoil, Eurodek’s subsidiary in Kopli, has been bought by the owners of the Port VeneBalti. Lonessa, which had planned an oil terminal in Muuga, gave up its plans. In the first nine months of this year the quantity of liquid cargo loaded to ships has decreased by a million tons year on year. The decline can be seen as of June – the five million tons in the summer months is 20 per cent less than last summer. The quantity of fertilisers was 43 per cent lower in summer year on year. MADli viTisMAnn Coal 1,000 t � 2005 � 2006 � 2007 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 PORTs & MARiTiME lOGisTiCs 0 Jan Mar y2007 y2006 y2005 May Jul Sep Nov Source: Port of Tallinn The singapore flagged Eagle Columbus entering Muuga harbour assisted by PKl tugs. In the first four months of the year, 2.7 million tons of coal was loaded to ships, i.e. 31 per cent more than last year. 444,000 tons was loaded in summer, which is extremely little in comparison with 2.1 million tons loaded last summer. The terminal cannot even dream of the 7.5 million tons loaded last year. Against this background it seems a political decision that the coal owners of the same region are building a terminal in Ventspils. KS Stivideerimise OÜ, which had loaded coal in Paljassaare harbour, initiated bankruptcy proceedings, because its main business partner terminated the contract in connection with suspension of transit operations in Russia. The Port of Miiduranna has also noticed a decline in classical transit. Earlier, the sCAnDinAviAn sHiPPinG GAZETTE • OCTOBER 26, 2007 45
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