Special equipment has been installed at the berths of Murmansk Commercial Seaport OJSC to efficiently fight dust appearing because of a combination of high temperature, wind and low humidity of cargo, the stevedore’s press center says.
The equipment can be moved by a tractor.
“This mobility makes it possible to use the facility for fighting dust at enormous territory,” the statement says.
Murmansk Commercial Seaport OJSC was established in 1994 on base of the public enterprise and nowadays it is one of Russia’s busiest ports. The port has 17 berths with total length of some 3,000 meters. The length and depth enables the port to handle vessels of up to 15.5 meters in draught and over 265 meters in length. In 2013, the company handled 17.13 mln t of cargo.
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