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eral cargo and cars. The company is also
considering developing a passenger terminal
as an option.
Meanwhile the passenger terminal Morskoy
Facade (“Sea Façade”), already under
construction in St Petersburg, is to serve its
first ship in 2008. However, regular largescale
passenger traffic via the terminal is
expected no earlier than by 2010. The
project worth some RUB 29 billion (EUR
820 million) envisages seven berths capable
of serving seven ships at a time.
Leningrad Oblast Ports
The ports of Leningrad Oblast (the administrative
territory in North-West Russia surrounding
the city of St Petersburg) increased
their throughput during January–August
2007 by 19.3 per cent year on year to 64.9
million tons. The lion’s share of this volume
was handled by Primorsk – 49.3 million tons
during the eight months, which is a 14.8 per
cent plus year on year. In August Transneft
(the owner and operator of the Baltic Pipeline
System, the final point of which is the
Primorsk oil terminal) received permission
to go ahead with the BPS-2 project aimed
at redirecting export designated crude, cur-
rently transported via the territory of Belarus
to the new Unecha–Primorsk pipeline,
and, consequently, to Primorsk.
Vyssotsk increased handling volumes by
22.2 per cent year on year to 10.6 million
tons. Ust-Luga doubled handling throughput
reaching 4.4 million tons in January–
August 2007. Vyborg was the only port in
Leningrad Oblast that faced a decrease in
handling (down by 13 per cent to 648,700
tons). The explanation is the change of the
owners – this year Oslo Marine acquired
the port from Rosa Holding. The new owners
intend to change the port specialization
and develop container and ro-ro operations
there.
86.8 per cent of the entire Leningrad
Oblast ports’ cargo throughput is oil and
products. The figure for the first eight
months of 2007 makes 57.1 million tons
exceeding the similar period’s result of
2006 by 16.6 per cent. Coal and coke were
up by 47.7 per cent to 6.9 million tons,
chemicals by 21.6 per cent (to 213,400
tons), cast iron by 31.3 per cent (to 77,700
tons), timber and logs by 1.7 per cent (to
430,900 tons), and fertilizers by 9.2 per
cent (to 7,100 tons).
Vyborg in January–August 2007
decreased in only the handling of two types
of cargo, cast iron (-77.2 per cent to 13,500
tons) and timber and logs (-53 per cent to
124,600 tons). However, this was enough
for the port to drop volumes even though
other cargo types were up. Liquid cargoes
increased by 34 per cent (to 103,200
tons), coal and coke by 20.4 per cent (to
103,200 tons), chemicals by 21.6 per cent
(to 213,400 tons), fertilizers by 9.2 per cent
(to 7,100 tons).
After Rosa Holding sold Vyborg it
remained the owner of the dry cargo terminal
at Vyssotsk. This asset handling
mainly coal will not be sold, assures Igor
Dubrovsky, head of the holding company.
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