Throughput of EVRAZ NMTP up 4% to over 3 mln t Jan-May’13
In January-May 2013, EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port (EVRAZ NMTP) handled over 3 mln t of cargo (+4%, year-on-year), the company’s press center informs. The share of coal and ferrous metal made 93% of the total turnover.
In May, the company handled 757,300 tonnes of cargo (+31%) including 412,900 tonnes of export coal (+75%, year-on-year). In the accounting period, export of ferrous metal totaled 295,600 tonnes (against 263,600 tonnes in May’12). Besides, the company transshipped aluminum, forest products, coke, saw timber, automobiles, containers.
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.
