Onega terminal of Oslo Marine Group (port of Saint Petersburg) is to be finalized early in December 2006, the company’s press center reports. Only weather conditions may cause a delay. Today asphalting work is going on, arrangement of an excise customs post is under finalization, personnel selection is in the process.
For the last 6 month the company is negotiating with a number of companies including Toyota, Nissan, Huynday, GM. Besides, the terminal may be interesting for ro-ro line operators working in Saint Petersburg including K-Line, BTS, Sovcomflot.
As of today, there are no other motorcar terminals with an excise customs status in Russia.
Onega LLC is multifunctional port terminal established within the framework of Oslo Marine Group late in 2005. The first phase of the project implies construction of a terminal covering the territory of 2.2 hectares. Investments into this phase exceeded RUR 300 million. Expected average annual turnover of import cars - 60 thousands units (5000 units per month). The Group says that volume of Finnish transit of cars via land cross border points will decrease by 1/3 after the first phase of terminal facilities is put into operation.
Besides, Avtomobilny Terminal Avtovo LLC has been specially incorporated by Oslo Marine Group and its German partners for handling of motor transport inflow.