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As the largest customer of the Suez Canal with more than 1,400 transits in 2014, the Maersk Group welcomes the expansion of the Suez Canal and the advantages it entails, Maersk Line said Thursday in a press release.

Egypt has all through the 20th and 21st century acted as the bridge between Europe and Asia thereby enabling global trade and growth. From 2004 to 2014 container volumes transported via the Suez Canal has grown around 70% and the expansion confirms the Suez Canal Authority’s continuous commitment to accommodating growth in trade. Maersk Group representative and CEO of Maersk Drilling, Claus V. Hemmingsen will participate in the official opening of the Suez Canal today along with COO of Maersk Line, Søren Toft.

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Vladimir Putin has signed Federal Law On the Free Port of Vladivostok, Kremlin press center says.
The State Duma of the Russian Federation passed the Federal Law on July 3, 2015. The Council of the Federation approved it on July 8, 2015.
The law regulates relations arising from the establishment and operation of the Vladivostok free port.
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In the first half of 2015 the turnover of OJSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (SP SPb) amounted to 4.3 mln tons, which is by 5% more than the indicator of the same period during the last year.

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In January-June 2015, Russian seaports handled 322.3 mln t of cargo (+3.5%, year-on-year), says press center of RF Transport Ministry. Transshipment of dry bulk cargo declined 0.2% to 138.7 mln t, liquid bulk cargo – up 6% to 183.6 mt.

Operators of the Arctic Basin terminals handled 17 mln t (-0.6%) including 11.5 mln t of dry cargo (-7.1%) and 5.6 mln t of liquid bulk cargo (+16%).

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Russian Railways OJSC is ready to support the initiative of the Kaliningrad Region authorities on expansion of ferry traffic between the exclave and the mainland of Russia, Kaliningrad Region Governor Nikolai Tsukanov said yesterday following the meeting with Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. The meeting was dedicated to the demand for more passenger-and-freight ferries at the line linking Baltijsk with port Ust-Luga (Leningrad region).

According to Nikolai Tsukanov, ferry service is a reliable way of cargo transportation for the exclave as it does not depend on rate policy of neighboring states or on operation of border checkpoints for road transport.

Two ferryboats operating on the route, Baltijsk and Ambal, are fully loaded in both directions. The carry over 1 mln t of cargo per year. Meanwhile, there is a demand and a potential for the increase of throughput capacity at rail-ferry complex in Baltijsk.

On the 17th of April there was officially forwarded for operations the infrastructure of the quay No 144, Klaipeda Port says in its press release.

When the one kilometre railroad was constructed, there remained no obstacles to use all the possibilities and execute commercial operations at the quay No 144.

The quay is adapted for handling general, bulk and dry bulk cargo and it is leased to the company KLASCO.

The length of the quay is – 469 m, the project water depth at the quay is – 11 m, and 931 m of railroad is built.

The total amount of EUR 1, 24 million was invested into the railroads at the quay No 144.

During the last 2,5 years the Port authority invested into infrastructure  almost  EUR 145 million.

In 2013 there were invested more than EUR 87 million, by two times more than during earlier years. It is planned to invest about EUR 350 million up to 2018.

More than a half of this sum will be allotted to port dredging. One more aspiration of the Port authority in 2015 is – to solve railway infrastructure issues. In 2015 it is planned to allot about EUR 4,4 million for railway constructions and repairs. It is intended to invest about EUR 3,3 million to the reconstruction of access roads and streets.

Source: http://en.portnews.ru/news/198779/

Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronka, Big Port St. Petersburg) and Svijazhsk Interregional Multimodal Logistic Center (Svijazhsk IMLC, Tatarstan) are looking into cooperation for highly-efficient logistics in container transportation sector. According to the press center of Fenix LLC (Bronka project investor and developer), the negotiations were held during TransRussia-2015 Exhibition by Timur Azhimov, Deputy Transport Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan,  and Aleksei Shukletsov, Executive Director of Fenix LLC.

The parties marked the advantageous geographical location of both MMPK Bronka and Svijazhsk IMLC as well as their simultaneous appearance in the market of transport & logistic and stevedoring services.

MMPK Bronka – as a deepwater outer port located in Saint-Petersburg, the main ‘sea gate’ of Russia, and having a convenient access to railway infrastructure – will be able to ensure smooth handling of containers delivered by trains from the central Russia to Saint-Petersburg and back.  Svijazhsk IMLC located, in its turn, in the very center of transport corridor “Europe-Western China” and linked to trunk railways, railway junction “Svijazhsk” and freight distribution station “Yudino”, will ensure accumulation and repacking of freight delivered by the above mentioned corridor as well as freight from industrially developed area of the country’s central part.

Thus, cooperation of MMPK Bronka and Svijazhsk IMLC will allow for creation of a reliable export-import transport corridor, ensure efficient logistic for container flows, facilitate economic development of the regions, production of export goods, phasing out of imports and generation of jobs.

Creation of Svijazhsk IMLC in the Republic of Tatarstan is one of the largest projects on creation of a comprehensive full-service logistic center in Russia and the largest on in the Volga Region.  It has been under implementation from 2010 within the framework of the federal special-purpose programme “Development of Russia’s Transport System, 2010-2020”. Investments into the project exceed RUB 20 bln. As of today, 95% of infrastructure being developed by the state is ready. The 193-hectare area divided into 6 lots is to be officially presented in late August 2015. The launch of the Center operation is scheduled for 2017. The Center’s estimated annual throughput is to make 12.2 mln t by 2020 and 29.1 mln t by 2030. Creation of a special economic zone at the Center is under consideration today.

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://en.portnews.ru/news/198729/

The Captain of Big Port St. Petersburg Alexander Volkov has allowed navigation on Korabelny Fairway as from midnight on April 23, the Baltic Seaports Authority said.

The canal is ready for transit of vessels with navigational aids installed according to summer season navigation mode.

Big Port St. Petersburg is the largest port in the North-West of Russia. The port is located on the islands of the Neva River delta at the eastern tip of the Baltic Sea. The port is assessable from the Baltic Sea through the 27-mile long Marine Canal. The boundaries and adjacent waters of Big Port St. Petersburg include offshore anchorage area, terminals, warehouses and piers leased out to several stevedoring companies.

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Estonia based Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam) hopes to become a hub for transshipment of petroleum products and containers through creation of new infrastructure, a Port Authority official said.

Port of Tallinn’s Chairman of the Management Board Ain Kaljurand, who was speaking at the international conference TransRussia 2015 in Moscow, said that actually Port of Tallinn has already been operating as oil products hub and has created infrastructure to receive and handle small tankers, including inland waterways vessels.

As to containers handling, the port official told the IAA PortNews correspondent that the port has recently finalized construction of a new container terminal with berth depth at 14.5 m. This enable the container terminal to accommodate ocean-going 10,000TEU boxships.

Today the Tallinn Port Authority implements procurement program for new handling equipment, purchasing new terminal cranes. Tallinna Sadam plans to attract global container operators: Maersk Line, COSCO, China Shipping Container Line and others.

Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam) ranks third among largest seaports on the Baltic Sea, next to St. Petersburg and Primorsk. The Port comprises five so-called port zones: Muuga, Old City Harbor, Paljassaare, Paldiski South and Saaremaa. In 2014 Tallinn port handled 28.32 million tonnes of different cargoes.

Source: http://en.portnews.ru/news/198490/

The world’s only Festival of Icebreakers will be held for the second time in Saint-Petersburg on May 2 – 3, the Organization Committee says.
The Festival is dedicated to the 70-year anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and to the deeds of the Polar Convoys.
The event will be held in the water area of Bolshaya Neva and will involve the operating icebreakers of the North West Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport: Moskva, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Kapitan Sorokin. Icebreaker Krasin, branch of the Museum of the World Ocean in Saint-Petersburg, will be the flagship of the Festival. Citizens and guests of Saint-Petersburg will be able to visit the icebreakers during three-day period, special tours will be arranged to the museum of the Admiralty Shipyards and to the icebreaker Arktika being built at the Baltiysky Zavod.

The Festival programme includes tours to icebreakers, large-scale historic reenactment dedicated to the development of Arctic and the Polar Convoys during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the presentation of the today’s icebreaking fleet of Russia.

The Parade of Icebreakers to be held with the support of PORTOFLOT CJSC on May 3. The programme of the closing ceremony will included the performance of the symphony orchestra and opera stars of Saint-Petersburg.

Source: http://en.portnews.ru/news/198282/