Throughput of EVRAZ NCSP up 2% to over 3.55 mln t in HI’13
In January-June 2013, EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port (EVRAZ NCSP) handled over 3.55 mln t of cargo (+2%, year-on-year), the company says. In the reported period, coal and ferrous metal accounted for 93% of total cargo traffic.
In the first half of 2013, handled 1.68 mln t of ferrous metal and 1.65 mln t of coal. Apart from these types of cargo, the company handled alumina, coke, forest products, containers, automobiles and other export/import cargo.
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.
