Throughput of Vladivostok Commercial Seaport totals 906.6 thou tons in Q1 07, y-o-y
In January-March 2007, Vladivostok Commercial Seaport handled 906.6 thou tons of cargo, the company’s press center reports. Export amounted to 430.7 thou tons, import – 301.9 thou tons, transshipment of coastal trade totaled 173.2 thou tons. Over the reported period the port handled 700 vessels and 12417 wagons. Average daily transshipment was 10.061 thou tons of cargo with average daily handling of 137.97 wagons. Vladivostok Commercial Seaport is located on the North-West shore of an ice-free Bay of Zolotoi Rog. The port specializes in handling of dry and liquid bulk cargo, timber and general cargo including containers. The port’s 16 berths are 4200 meters long. Two of the berths are cargo-and-passenger ones. All the berths except for berth No 16 are multi-purpose berths. Berth No 16 specializes in handling of large-capacity containers. The port also has two refrigerator warehouses with a capacity of 5,000 m3 each.