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2008 May 8   08:56

German Ministry of Transport to open regular shipping line linking Vyborg with ports of Sweden and Germany

German Ministry of Transport plans to open a regular shipping line linking Vyborg with the ports of Sweden and Germany, press center of Oslo Marine Group informs. Preliminary agreement was achieved on May 6, when the port of Vyborg was visited by German delegation headed by Tilo Shelling, head of the department of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany).

The port of Vyborg was founded in 1293 on the crossroads of waterways between Finnish Gulf and navigable system of the Saimaa lakes and the Vuoksa river. Vyborg Port Ltd. Was acquired by Oslo Marine Group in 2007 for diversification of its activities and creation of the Group’s transport-and-logistics complex in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

As of today, the port handles mainly dry loose cargo (mineral fertilizers), dry bulk cargo (coal, cast iron, scrap metal), timber (round and sawn timber), general cargo (import steel and pipes, containers, fertilizers in big-bags, export pellets), liquid bulk cargo (lingosulphonates) etc.

The new management plans to carry out reconstruction of 70,000 m2 of port territory with complete re-equipment of the existing facilities. According to the plans, in the nearest future the port is to become an up-to-date transshipment complex being an important logistics echelon of the transport system in Russia’s North-West region as good in equipment as the best ports of the Baltic Sea to participate in the system of European cargo flows distribution. After reconstruction the port is to specialize mainly in container, general and ro-ro cargo.

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