In January-August Vostochny Port JSC handled 15.8 million tons of cargo, up by 2.4% YoY.
According to the stevedore’s statistics, coal exports in August totaled 2.24 million tons.
From the beginning of 2016, the company handled 349 bulk carriers including 49 vessels loaded in August.
Vostochny Port JSC (Primorsky Territory) is Russia’s largest publicly available terminal equipped with wagon dumpers, conveyor systems, ship-loading equipment and a unique multilevel system of magnetic separation. The terminal exports coal produced by different coal companies of Russia.
In 2015 the port handled 22.8 million tons of coal, one fifth of all coal exports via Russian seaports and about 32% of coal transshipment via the ports of Russia’s Far East Basin.
Vostochny Port JSC LLC is implementing an ambitious investment project on construction of the coal terminal’s Phase 3 including the construction of the federal railway infrastructure. New terminal facilities will be put into operation in 2017 allowing for port capacity to reach 39 million tons in 2019. The coal will be delivered from Kuzbass and other coalfields of Russia.
A sole executive body of Vostochny Port JSC is Managing Port Company LLC. (Portnews/Business World Magazine)