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Construction works are in full swing at the site of a container freight warehouse on the territory of the Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronk) a dedicated container port under construction at Big Port St. Petersburg, the project investor & developer Fenix said.

The indoor heated warehouse of Class A comprises 10 sqm and is located on the territory of a container terminal of Port “Bronka”. The facility is intended for temporary storage of containerized goods, for consolidation / deconsolidation and picking up containers. The container frieght station will also have an area for in-depth inspection of containers.

The facility completion is scheduled for July 2015.

The Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronka) is being built on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, where the Dam and the Ring Road border the territory of Lomonosov. The Bronka Complex will comprise three specialized facilities: a container terminal encompassing 107 hectares, the Ro-Ro terminal of 57 ha and a logistics center of 42 ha. Container terminal will have 1.176 m-long quay wall (including 5 berths). The length of Ro-Ro terminal’s dock line will be 630 meters (3 berths). After completion of Bronka Phase 1 its capacity will reach 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. In future the MMPK Bronka expansion will help increase the facility’s container throughput to 1.9 million TEUs. Upon completion of the port’s construction and dredging to the design mark of 14,4 meters in 2015 MMPK Bronka will be able to accommodate post-Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class.
Implementation of the Bronka project is expected to generate 2,300 jobs at its marine terminals alone.

Source: http://portnews.ru/news/196168/

Handling of exports, imports and transit cargo at the terminals of Latvia based Free Port of Riga  in January-February 2015 increased by 4.7% compared to the same period last year, to 6,83 million tonnes, the Port Authority statistics said.

Coal shipments in the reporting period rose 12.9% to 2,550,500 tonnes, scrap metal volumes jumped by 49.6% to 129,100 tonnes. At the same time handling of petroleum products fell by 3.6% to 1,833,700 tonnes, of wood pellets – by 20.6% to 80,800 tonnes, handling of ore dropped by 8.3% to 45,300 tonnes.

Container traffic increased by 3% to 63,167 TEUs. The number of passengers carried to / from the port shrank by 40.6% to 61,352 people. There were no cruise passengers in January-February.

Riga, Latvia based Free Port of Riga lies on both banks of the River Daugava (Western Dvina), The port encompasses 6.348 hectares, including 13,818-meter waterfront with berths max depths of 16 meters (ship draft – 12.2 m). Transit cargoes account for 80 percent of overall freight traffic moved to / from the CIS countries. In 2014, cargo throughput at the Port of Riga totaled 41,08 million tonnes.

Source: http://portnews.ru/news/196080/

In January-February 2015, the port of Klaipeda (Lithuania) handled 5.96 mln t of cargo (+9%, year-on-year), press center of the port authority says. February throughput climbed by 2.9% to 2.95 mln t.

Transshipment of fertilizers climbed by 27.9% to 1,090,400, oil products – by 36.3% to 599,200 t, containers – down 10.7% to 394,100, ro-ro cargo – by 3.6% to 336,100 t.

Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice–free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is the most important and biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway routes from East to West. The port’s throughput (including Butinge terminal) made 33.42 mln t in 2013.

New version of the Federal Law No 257-FL “On Highways and Road Traffic” will facilitate shifting of cargo from road and rail transport to water transport, regional journalist of IAA PortNews cites Evgeny Moskvichev, head of the State Duma Transport Committee, as saying at the joint extended meeting of the Public Council under Rostov Region’s Transport Ministry.

According to Moskvichev, the amended Law is just about to appear. The new version is to ban road transportation of loose cargo exceeding 40 t. Large volumes can be transported only by heavy-weight trucks the share of which is only 2%.

The bill provides for fines of up to RUB 1 mln.

The speaker explained that the law would redirect the flow of loose cargo to railway, marine and river transport which is to have a positive impact on the state of highways.

 

Source http://en.portnews.ru/news/195756/

On the instructions of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Bolshoi Kamen is being considered as a territory which can be included into the list of Priority Development Areas, press center of the Primorsk Territory authorities says.

The status of a closed territory was taken off Bolshoi Kamen, where shipbuilding center Zvezda is being created now, in January 2015, according to the Decree of RF President Vladimir Putin and now the city can be included into PDA list.

The statement also says the personnel of Zvezda is supposed to contain 60% of the locals with the rest of employees to be attracted from other regions. At the initial phase, they will be invited from Germany and S.Korea to train the personnel of the shipyard.

Shipbuilding comlex Zvezda is being created in Bolshoi Kamen within the framework of the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center. The first phase is to be completed in 2016, the second and the third – in 2018. The production is to be launched in the first quarter of 2016. The complex is supposed to build vessels for the development of hydrocarbon fields on the Arctic shelf.

Source: http://portnews.ru/news/195594/

On February 19, 2015, Nordic Yards (Wismar, Germany) held a name-giving ceremony for two multipurpose salvage vessels of project MPSV06-NY, Beringov Proliv and Murman, Nordic Yards says in its press release.

The ceremony was attended by Nordic Yards President Victor Yusufov, Deputy Transport Minister of Russia Victor Olersky,   head of the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency Alexander Davydenko and other officials.

The contract for construction of two multipurpose salvage vessels was signed between the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency and Nordic Yards in December 2012. Their construction commenced in September 2013 under the federal special-purpose programme “Development of Russia’s Transport System (2010-2015)”.

The vessels named MPSV Beringov Proliv (Bering Strait, hull No 217) and MPSV Murman (hull No 218) are registered in Korsakov and Murmansk respectively. Vessels characteristics: length – about 88 m, breadth – almost 19 m, depth – 8.5 m.

From spring 2015, the vessels will start fulfilling their tasks on patrolling and rescuing operations in the areas of shipping, fishing, oil and gas production. The vessels are intended for search and assistance to vessels in distress, breaking of ice of up to 1.5 m thick, fighting of fire at floating and onshore facilities, oil spill response activities, inspection of sea bed and damaged facilities at the depth of up to 1,000 m.

Nordic Yards has three production locations in Germany – Rostock-Warnemünde, Wismar and Volkswerft Stralsund. The company specializes in the construction of offshore platforms, ice-class vessels, ferries and passenger ships.

Source: http://portnews.ru/news/195240/

Fenix LLC, the Bronka project investor and developer has signed a contract for the supply of two reach-stackers (rail-stackers) Kone SMV 4545ТCX5, Fenix LLC says. One of the reach-stackers is intended for the container terminal of the Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronka, Big Port St. Petersburg), the other one – for Bronka’s Ro-Ro terminal. The equipment is to be delivered in August 2015.

Each reach-stacker is equipped with a two-section telescopic boom and a telescopic spreader for stacking of up to five empty/laden containers up to 45 t.

The equipment is fitted with extra stops and vertically movable cabins for loading/unloading on more than one track. Such reach-stackers are especially efficient for handling flatcars which is to contribute considerably to faster operations at Bronka’s railway facilities and also speed up rotation of flatcars within the network of Russian Railways.

The Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronka) is being built on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, where the Dam and the Ring Road border the territory of Lomonosov. The Bronka Complex will comprise three specialized facilities: a container terminal encompassing 107 hectares, the Ro-Ro terminal of 57 ha and a logistics center of 42 ha. Container terminal will have 1.176 m-long quay wall (including 5 berths). The length of Ro-Ro terminal’s dock line will be 630 meters (3 berths). After completion of Bronka Phase 1 its capacity will reach 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. In future the MMPK Bronka expansion will help increase the facility’s container throughput to 1.9 million TEUs. Upon completion of the port’s construction and dredging to the design mark of 14,4 meters in 2015 MMPK Bronka will be able to accommodate post-Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class.

Implementation of the Bronka project is expected to generate 2,300 jobs at its marine terminals alone.

The launch of MMPK Bronka operations is scheduled for September 2015.

Source: http://portnews.ru/news/195300/

For the second ocean carrier filed for bankruptcy after the collapse of freight rates, which led to the loss of many companies whose vessels are idle, instead of transporting iron ore, coal and grain

Weakening demand from China and a surplus of ships led to the worst in the industry downtrend over the past 30 years, lowering the Baltic Dry Index, which reflects the cost of transport of dry cargo by sea, twenty main trade routes, to a record low.

The Chinese company Winland Ocean Shipping Corp. filed Feb. 12 documents on protection from creditors under bankruptcy law in the United States, the second case of bankruptcy this month. Due to current market conditions, the financial position of the company and its subsidiaries had deteriorated, leading to difficulties at the moment, according to the company.

Private Copenship Danish company filed for bankruptcy in early February after the losses suffered in the dry cargo market.

The combination of lower demand for steel in China and the large volume of new vessels causes panic and creates a worse situation in the market of dry cargo shipments since the mid-1980s, officials said the Hong Kong carrier Courage Marine.

China’s imports fell by 19.9% ​​compared with the previous year, as the economy slowed the growth to the rate of observed 24 years ago.

The current freight rate for the transport of coal freighter Panamax class from Indonesia to South China is about $ 3,000 per day compared to $ 6,000 last year. The index value of dry cargo shipments slumped by nearly two thirds in the last 15 months.

Growing fleet worsens slowing demand, the number of class ships Capesize and Panamax, ordered transport companies for the next three years, representing 39% of the existing fleet, the carrier according to Clarkson. However, shipping dry cargo increased by only 4% in the past year.

As a result, dozens of ships and Sapesize Ranamax idle in Singapore, Hong Kong and the coast of South Africa.

Bulk carriers are not the only victims. More than 10% of the world fleet of LNG tankers carrying liquefied natural gas, now left without work after the Asian LNG prices have fallen by almost two-thirds since February 2014.

Professor Oleg Atkov MD, Vice-President of Russian Railways, gave a lecture on the health care system at Russian Railways at the IV International Internet Congress of Experts on Internal Medicine.

Atkov talked about the specific features and priorities of the development of the railway health care and occupational medicine as an integrated structure. He paid particular attention to ensuring medical safety on trains and the system of medical and psycho-physiological control. Every year, Russian Railways carries out about 1.5 million expert medical examinations, 30 million pre-departure medical examinations, professional selections, dynamic control of the functional state and remediation activities.

“When you board our trains, you can rest assured that the locomotive crew has passed through a pre-departure medical control. You are transported by healthy, strong professionals,” said the Vice-President of Russian Railways.”

In addition, Oleg Atkov outlined the Company’s research priorities. So, the railway sector’s cardiology unit studies the effect of magnetic storms on the locomotive crew and searches for ways to minimise the risk of developing acute cases of cardiovascular disease.

Source: http://eng.rzd.ru/newse/public/en?STRUCTURE_ID=15&layer_id=4839&refererLayerId=4530&id=106549

Container domestic ports of Azov-Black Sea basin over the past 2014, the year increased by 0.1 percent relative to the level of the 2013th year, totaling thus 747,900 TEU.

Of the total exports of container laden had 125,900 TEU – is 16.1 percent higher than in 2013.; for empty export during the reporting period had 251,100 TEU (decline of 4.4 per cent); imports amounted to 368,400 TEU (1.8 percent less), transit – 251 TEU (third more pozaproshlogodnego index) and reached a value of cabotage in the 2181 TEU (growth by 5.7 times).

Over the past year the largest container port basin is as follows:

Novorossiysk – 721,200 TEU – decline of 0.2 percent;

port of Taganrog – 6100 TEU – 12.6 percent more;

port of Azov – 13,700 TEU (+15,8 percent).