Ports in Russia

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2024

The Lugaport terminal built for ₽90 billion in the Leningrad region began to receive the heaviest sea vessels

In early October 2024, the Lugaport universal terminal in the Leningrad Region, which cost ₽90 billion to build, received the first Post Panamax-class vessel with a draft of 14.5 m. More details here

Adamant sold 50% of the operator of the seaport Vitino

In mid-September 2024, it became known that the combined closed unit investment fund (ZPIF) Quark became a co-owner of Nord Star LLC, which is the operator of the Vitino seaport. As part of the transaction, part of his share was sold by the co-owner and vice-president of the Adamant holding company Vladimir Golubev. Read more here

In the Far East, a specialized port with its own railway infrastructure was launched for 51.8 billion rubles

In early September 2024, a new specialized port with its own railway infrastructure was launched in the Far East. The project, implemented by the resident of the Free Port of Vladivostok - the company "Seaport" Sukhodol, "was an important step in the development of the transport infrastructure of the region. The construction of the port is aimed at providing access to sea lanes for small and medium-sized coal mining enterprises. The total cost of the project amounted to ₽51,8 billion. Read more here

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delo Group bought the port of Korsakov on Sakhalin

Russian businessman and chairman of the board of directors of the Delo group of companies Sergei Shishkarev in April 2024 announced the purchase of the port of Korsakov on Sakhalin. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more here.

400 billion rubles were allocated for the construction of seaports in Russia until 2030

400 Russia billion rubles under the federal program "" was allocated for the construction of seaports in 2030. Transport This was announced at the end of February 2024 by Rosmorport Vladimir Abornev, Deputy General Director for Capital Construction of FSUE "." According to him, about 100 billion rubles of the total amount should come from the federal budget and 300 billion rubles from private investors.

According to Interfax, citing data that Abornev cited at the Hydrotechnical Structures and Dredging Congress at the end of February 2024, it is planned to build about 220 million tons of port capacity by 2030 and carry out dredging by 35 million cubic meters. Moreover, the annual volume of standard dredging within the framework of Rosmorport's activities is about 15 million cubic meters, the deputy head of the enterprise noted.

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As part of the implementation of the national project "Transport," it is planned to carry out several initiatives in the field of ports. Among them are a large-scale modernization of the ports of Ust-Luga, Vladivostok, Vostochny and Nakhodka with the advent of new cargo terminals, the construction of the Port Elga marine terminal, and the construction of coal terminals in the port of Vanino. In the south of Russia, it is planned to create modern berths in the port of Novorossiysk and expand the ports of the Caspian Sea.

In addition, earlier the Government of the Russian Federation allocated 27.5 billion rubles for the expansion of the port of Pevek, located in the Chaun Bay of the East Siberian Sea. It is planned to deploy cargo berths, hydraulic structures, including the water area, approach channel and dam. It is assumed that the infrastructure created will ensure the installation of additional floating nuclear power units, which will make it possible to bring the Baimskoye field to its design capacity and ship up to 2 million tons of metals mined there at the terminal.^[1]

A seaport will be built in Murmansk for 20 billion rubles

In mid-February 2024, it became known about the project of a universal seaport in Murmansk. It will be created by 2028, and investments in construction will amount to 20 billion rubles. This was told by the Deputy General Director for Operation of Murmansk Sea Fishing Port JSC (MMRP) Andrei Borodin. Read more here.

2023

Record cargo turnover of seaports - 900 million tons

Vitaly Klyuev, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Marine and Inland Water Transport of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, estimated the cargo turnover of the country's seaports at 900 million tons in 2023, which, according to him, became an absolute record in the entire history of the USSR and Russia.

Container turnover of Russian ports for the year increased by 15%

Container cargo turnover of sea terminals in Russian ports in 2023 reached 4.72 million TEU (equivalent to a 20-foot container), which is 15.5% more than a year earlier. Such data for the entire market in January 2024 was cited by its largest participant, Global Ports. Read more here.

Putin signed a law on the privatization of abandoned river ports for the ruble

At the end of November 2023, the president Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law on the privatization of abandoned river ports at a starting price of one. ruble It will be possible to purchase such river infrastructure facilities only if the mandatory condition is met - they cannot be repurposed and used for other purposes.

According to the law, the contract of sale of the object must set the period for its putting in order within five years. If this condition is not fulfilled, the contract with the new owner will be terminated without reimbursement of costs. The criteria for classifying ports as unclaimed facilities in unsatisfactory condition are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin signed a law on the privatization of abandoned river ports at a starting price of a ruble

The explanatory note notes that the lack of budget funding for the maintenance of mooring facilities, as well as "the lack of a legal basis for operating organizations to ­ use their own funds for their repair" have already led to a ban on the operation of ­ moorings in the Moscow Western Port, as well as in Tyumen, Yakutsk and Ulyanovsk ports. A number of ports ceased operations (Moscow West, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Kostroma, Ufa, Kineshemsky and a number of smaller ones).

Lawyers interviewed by Vedomosti noted the absence of criteria in the law "the degree of violation of investment obligations and reimbursement of costs by the ­ state when terminating the ­ of such agreements." Ekaterina Tokareva, partner of the Pen & Paper ­ Bar Association, says that in case of non-fulfillment of investment obligations (if it is recognized as significant) in the contract of ­ sale, such an agreement can be terminated on the basis of Art. 450 of the Civil Code. And if the river port is misused, the property can be seized by the state, and an administrative fine can be imposed^[2] added^[3]

2022

Russian seaports restored cargo turnover to pre-pandemic level

The cargo turnover of Russian seaports in 2022 was restored at the level that was in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 in the amount of 840 million tons. Information about this was shared Rosmorrechflot in early January 2023.

In terms of infrastructure construction in unfavorable foreign economic sanctions conditions, it was possible to prevent the freezing of development projects and continue the implementation of the construction of all key infrastructure facilities, the agency said.

Rosmorrechflot: the volume of cargo transshipment in seaports in 2022 amounted to about 840 million tons

The increase in the production capacity of the seaports of the Russian Federation in 2022 amounted to 36.64 million tons, which became possible thanks to the successful implementation of:

• Construction of a specialized coal terminal "Port Vera" in the area of ​ ​ Cape Open (Primorsky Territory) with a capacity of 4.55 million tons;
• Construction of the infrastructure of the offshore transshipment complex of liquefied natural gas in the Kamchatka Territory with a capacity of 5.43 million tons;

Construction of a marine terminal near the Portovaya CS in the Vysotsk seaport with a capacity of 1.66 million tons;

• Commissioning of the Taman bulk cargo terminal in the Taman seaport with a capacity of 25 million tons.

In addition, the agency stressed that the specialists managed to ensure the reorientation of cargo flows from the North-West Basin in the eastern direction. We are talking about the transshipment of container cargo in the ports of the Far East for 11 months of 2022, which increased by 8.3%.

In accordance with the current plans for the renewal of the service fleet, by the end of 2022, 16 ships were built and handed over to the basin administrations, including 4 project 3052 ambient ships; 6 Project 3330 measuring vessels; 2 non-self-propelled dredgers of project No. 4395 and 4 measuring vessels of project RDB 66.62.^[4]

Sharp reduction in transshipment in Russian ports after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine

Cargo turnover of ports in Russia in 2022:

• St. Petersburg - 38.8 million tons (-37.5% by 2021)

• Novorossiysk - 147.4 million tons (+ 3.3%)

• Vladivostok - 32.2 million tons (+ 8.9%)

Basin container:

• Baltic - 1 million TEU (-56%)

• Azov-Black Sea - 765.19 thousand TEU (-9%)

• Far Eastern - 2.3 million TEU (+ 8.2%)

According to the results of January-November 2022, export transshipment in the ports of Russia decreased by 25.5%, to 1.53 million TEU, imported - by 30.2%, to 1.5 million TEU, transit - by 33%, to 124.89 thousand. TEU.

Container turnover of Russian seaports for the full year 2022 decreased by 23%.

2021: Novorossiysk and Ust-Luga in the 5 largest ports in Europe

Europe's busiest cargo ports in 2021

Of the top 5 largest ports in Europe in terms of cargo turnover, two are in Russia: Novorossiysk (third place, almost 143 million tons of cargo) and Ust-Luga (fifth place, 109 million tons).

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