Annual transshipment of liquid bulk cargo in Primorsk to grow to 120 mln t - Levitin

Annual transshipment of liquid bulk cargo in the port of Primorsk is to grow from 75 million tonnes to 120 million tonnes, RF Transportation Minister Igor Levitin told at the ceremony of launching oil products pipeline Sever according to Dp.ru referring to Interfax. Primorsk gets a second wind with the launch of Sever project. “Besides crude shipment the port will commence shipment of oil products," Levitin said. According to him, the construction of a railway line and a 10-12 - mln tonne terminal will start next year. As it was reported earlier, port Primorsk handles 75 million tonnes of oil within the framework of BPS project (Baltic Pipeline System). The capacity of Sever project will be raised from 8.5 million tonnes to 24.6 million tonnes of oil products per year.