EVRAZ NCSP accepts equipment for coal complex modernization
First batch of equipment for the modernization of a coal complex has arrived in EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port, the company says in its press release.
The equipment is delivered by sea from the plants of German-based ThyssenKrupp. The first batch comprised 130 cargo places with total weigh of 658 tonnes. The rest of the equipment under the agreement between ThyssenKrupp and EVRAZ NCSP will be delivered later by three vessels.
The equipment is dedicated for a large-scale investment project on production modernization being implemented by EVRAZ NCSP within the port territory. The complex is to comprise a wagon dumper, defroster and ripper, stackers, loading machines, dust catching screens, aeration devices and foam guns.
Technical upgrade of the coal complex is aimed at improvement of environmental specifications, better preservation of wagon fleet, increase of railway capacity in winter and higher throughput of EVRAZ NCSP.
EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port is a major stevedore company operating at the largest Russia’s Far Eastern Port of Nakhodka, located in the eastern Gulf of Peter the Great, in Nakhodka Bay. The port is linked to the Eurasian continent through the Trans-Siberian Railway, serving the Asia-Europe-Asia trade flows. The port is able to handle up to 450 rail cars a day. Warehousing facilities area is 300,000 m2. JSC EVRAZ NCSP operates on 15 cargo berths and one facility for handling the port’s workboats, of total length of 3.5 km, which can accommodate ships with length of 230m, breadth of 32m and draft of 11 m. Currently, at least 15 ships are able dock at the port’s berths simultaneously and the port is able to handle more than 1,500 large vessels a year.
EVRAZ is a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa. EVRAZ is among the top 20 steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 15.9 million tonnes in 2012.
