Five-month cargo volumes of JSC Vostochny Port drop 2.4% to 7.47m tonnes
Cargo throughput at the terminals operated by JSC Vostochny Port in January-May 2013 shrank by 2.4% compared with the same period last year, to 7.47 million tones, the port operator said in a press release.
In May, the company handled 1,623,700 tonnes, a 9.9-percent decline year-on-year.
The Vostochny port operator handles primarily coal mined in Kuzbass region. Export coal accounts for 98.5% of the stevedore’s total throughput. About 1.5% of cargo is coal delivered by coasting vessels with other types of cargo making up only 0.01%.
OJSC Vostochny Port is the largest stevedoring company in Russia, specializing in handling export coal at its dedicated, fully automated Coal Handling Terminal featuring conveyor equipment and railyard for unloading coal-laden cars. In the first five months of the year the operator handled at the terminal 5,846,400 tonnes of coal, a 3% drop on the previous year’s results. The facility of capacity of 14.2m tones a year is one of the kind in Primorsky region.
In May, the terminal’s coal throughput fell 5% year-on-year to 1,265,100 tonnes.
In the reporting five-month period, another facility, the Universal Handling Terminal (annual capacity – 3 million tones) handled 1,400,600 tonnes of cargo, a slight 0.1% gain from a year earlier. In May, the operator handled 358.600 tonnes of different cargoes (+6.5%).
