Oslo Marine Group and Schuppertbau Rus have signed a contract on repairs in the port of Vyborg, the Group’s press center reports.
Schuppertbau Rus is a Russian subsidiary of one of the largest German construction concerns cooperating with many European ports.
Within the framework of the contract Schuppertbau is to repair concrete layer of the grounds, engineering networks, communications and electric facilities including light posts. The company will also repair railway and road approaches, administrative and utility premises at the port’s territory.
The contract has been signed within the framework of a general plan for modernization of Vyport port.
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.
Vyborg port is a member of the Associaion of Russian Commercial Seaports.
Oslo Marine Group was set up in 1999. As of today, the group is a multifunctional structure engaged in different spheres mainly port services, insurance, leasing, real estate, treatment and sale of timber.
As of March 1 2008, the Group’s consolidated assets totaled RUR 13 billion.