Throughput of the port of Primorsk to reach 125 million tons in 2008 – Grigori Dvas
Oil transshipment in the port of Primorsk (Leningrad region, end point of Baltic Pipeline System of Transneft) will total 125 million tons in 2008, PortNews IAA learnt at the conference «Formation of an international transport-and-logistics center in the Leningrad region – platform of the region’s economic growth» from Grigori Dvas, vice-governor of the Leningrad region. As PortNews IAA told earlier, Transneft plans to increase Primorsk capacity, which is to take at least 1.5 years. According to Dvas, increase of oil transshipment in the port of Primorsk contributes to attractiveness of a project for construction of a new refinery in Primorsk. The company, which is to be the project’s investor is a branch of Transneft. The first phase of the refinery is to have a capacity of about 3 million tons of oil products per year, the project’s complete design capacity is to total 9 million tons per year.