RUSSIA'S major Baltic oil port, Primorsk, is on the verge of seeing new construction that will transform the port into a multi-purpose facility up to three million TEU annually, reports St Petersburg PortNews.
Named the Primorsk Universal Port Complex (PUPC), it will be built on a 760ha plot, some 1.5km southeast of the existing oil harbour.
The new port will have many dedicated terminals, including a container-handling facility with an annual capacity of two million TEU initially, rising to three million TEU at a later stage.
'With its 860-metre long pier and four berths, our container terminal would be Russia's only facility able to handle 20,000 TEU ships,' said PUPC director general Andrey Sizov.
'This would save freight carriers' resources currently spent for feeder services,' said Mr Sizov.
To arrange temporary container storage, the terminal will have a 40ha container yard, a warehouse for 60,000 TEU, and a reefer handling area with 3,000 electrical sockets.
'An integrated operation of the container terminal and the cargo village would allow us to provide a wide variety of regular and optional services aimed to meet all the shippers' logistics needs,' said Mr Sizov.
'The SEZ would offer its residents favorable tax and customs regimes, encouraging them to make goods with high added value,' said Mr Sizov.
'For instance, it could open a door to launching screwdriver industries and assembly lines, which would require imported parts and thus increase container traffic through the terminal.' said Mr Sizov.
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Named the Primorsk Universal Port Complex (PUPC), it will be built on a 760ha plot, some 1.5km southeast of the existing oil harbour.
The new port will have many dedicated terminals, including a container-handling facility with an annual capacity of two million TEU initially, rising to three million TEU at a later stage.
'With its 860-metre long pier and four berths, our container terminal would be Russia's only facility able to handle 20,000 TEU ships,' said PUPC director general Andrey Sizov.
'This would save freight carriers' resources currently spent for feeder services,' said Mr Sizov.
To arrange temporary container storage, the terminal will have a 40ha container yard, a warehouse for 60,000 TEU, and a reefer handling area with 3,000 electrical sockets.
'An integrated operation of the container terminal and the cargo village would allow us to provide a wide variety of regular and optional services aimed to meet all the shippers' logistics needs,' said Mr Sizov.
'The SEZ would offer its residents favorable tax and customs regimes, encouraging them to make goods with high added value,' said Mr Sizov.
'For instance, it could open a door to launching screwdriver industries and assembly lines, which would require imported parts and thus increase container traffic through the terminal.' said Mr Sizov.
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