SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

POrTS & MAriTiMe lOGiSTiCS
The Skirner unloading in the Petrolesport container terminal in St Petersburg.
During the first eight months of 2007 the
consolidated results of Vyssotsk (including
Rosa’s coal terminal and LUKoil’s oil product
terminal) increased by 22.2 per cent to
10.6 million tons. 7.8 million tons of this
volume is oil products, which grew by 29.6
per cent. Coal and coke were up by 5.4 per
cent to 2.8 million tons.
Ust-Luga is continually growing,
although not so rapidly as it used to. Thus,
if at the start of the year the port demonstrated
manifold growth year on year, by
the end of summer 2007 significant growth
was evident only in coal handling (which
made slightly less than 4 million tons).
It looks like Ust-Luga grew not only on
Russian coal earlier exported via the Baltic
countries’ ports (thus, Tallinn during the
first eight months of the year lost 25.8 per
cent of coal throughput), but also at the
expense of Murmansk, which was down by
7.6 per cent.
Timber and logs throughput at Ust-
Luga increased by 93.5 per cent to 306,300
tons. This year the port started handling
cast iron, with the eight months’ result
amounting to 64,200 tons. Other cargoes
amounted to 36,200 tons growing by 97.8
per cent year on year. In June this year a
new universal terminal was launched at
Ust-Luga. This is the third terminal to have
become operable in the port.
In April this year National Container
Company started building a container terminal
at Ust-Luga – at last, one might say,
as the project was announced as long back
as in 2002. The launch of the first stage of
the facility was initially scheduled for 2006.
Later, in 2005, the then company management
promised to put Stage 1 into operation
in 2007.
The delay can be accounted for by the
lack of investment. Now that Industrial
Investors Group – led by former RF Energy
Minister Sergey Generalov – entered the
business, the terminal development seems
to have taken off.
NCC President Alyona Ashurkova says
the two 440 meters long berths are to be
completed by December this year, and
at the beginning of 2009 the company
hopes to serve the first ship. The terminal
is designed for handling 3 million TEUs
annually (with a possibility to be expanded
to 6 million TEUs).
NCC shareholders intend to invest
USD 800 million by 2020 into the project.
Investment from the state budget is expected
to make at least USD 110 million.
Another project that has recently
become associated with Ust-Luga is Sovcomflot’s
oil product terminal. Although
the shipping company has not given any
official comment on the project yet, the
local authorities as well as the management
of Ust-Luga Co JCS, which is the developer
of the port, confirm the information.
According to Tatiana Pauk, a spokeswoman
for Ust-Luga Co, the two companies
reached an agreement on the terminal
construction during the economic forum
in Sochi in September and did not sign it
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on paper only due to some “technical reasons”.
The terminal capacity is planned to
make about 10 million tons of fuel oil and
high-octane petrol annually.
Meanwhile, the launch of the multifunctional
terminal Yug-2, initially scheduled
for August this year, is put off till
November. The new terminal is aimed for
receiving and storing new cars.
Kaliningrad
During the eight months of 2007 the stevedores
operating in Kaliningrad proper and
in the two adjacent water basins – in Baltiysk
and Svetly – handled jointly 10.3 million
tons of cargo, which is a 2.9 per cent
minus against the same period of 2006.
Export traffic amounted to 9 million
tons, with coal and coke increasing to
652,900 tons (+46.3 per cent), timber and
logs to 54,000 tons (+0.4 per cent), chemical
fertilizers to 387,500 tons (+0.5 per
cent), ferrous metals to 1.3 million tons
(+11.6 per cent) and containerized cargo to
202,700 tons (+71.8 per cent).
Export designated ferroalloys were down
by 10.7 per cent to 167,100 tons, scrap metal
by 24.9 per cent to 88,500 tons, grains by
67.5 per cent to 14,700 tons, ro-ro cargoes
by 87.2 per cent to 3,100 tons and oil products
by 12.2 per cent to 6 million tons.
Import traffic during January–August
2007 amounted to 1.2 million tons, increasing
by 22.1 per cent year on year. This
included 257,800 tons of grains (+18 per
cent), 575,300 tons of containerized cargo
(+59.5 per cent), 193,600 tons of construction
materials (+25 per cent), 37,100 tons
of refrigerated cargo (-52.3 per cent), 37,200
tons of fish (-66 per cent) and 16,100 tons
of ro-ro cargo (-11.5 per cent).
Cabotage amounted to 82,300 tons,
which is almost twice as much as in January–August
2006.
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The oil terminal in Vysotsk.
68 SCAndinAViAn SHiPPinG GAZeTTe • OCTOBer 26, 2007
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