Cargo turnover at Murmansk Marine Fishing Port (MMFP) in February 2010 rose by 22.7% from February last year, up to 27.000 tons. In the reporting period the port handled 92 vessels, including 26 large ships, the MMFP press office said citing the Assistant Director General of MMFP Anton Artemiev.
"The volume growth was possible because fishing of capelin began very early this year. As to forecast for March it may turn out disappointing. The last year’s March brought almost 40.000 tons. Now there are fishing lease applications for only 23.000 tons of capelin. Cargo owners can not sell capelin fish they have caught, so many has already started catching other fish. Since early this year, we’ve had 22.000 tons of capelin, the major volume of the fish remained in the port’s refrigerators. We’ve begun just in several recent days loading the cargo onto rail cars,” Anton Artemiev was quoted as saying.
Murmansk Marine Fishing Port is a modern highly mechanized enterprise in the Russian North. The port specializes in transshipment of cargo from fishing vessels, mother ships and reefers. Russian Government owns a 100% stake in MMFP OJSC through the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management and Russia Federal Property Fund, the Gov. agency. Throughput of MMFP in 2009 grew by 36% compared to last year’s output, up to 255.000 tons of fish.
"The volume growth was possible because fishing of capelin began very early this year. As to forecast for March it may turn out disappointing. The last year’s March brought almost 40.000 tons. Now there are fishing lease applications for only 23.000 tons of capelin. Cargo owners can not sell capelin fish they have caught, so many has already started catching other fish. Since early this year, we’ve had 22.000 tons of capelin, the major volume of the fish remained in the port’s refrigerators. We’ve begun just in several recent days loading the cargo onto rail cars,” Anton Artemiev was quoted as saying.
Murmansk Marine Fishing Port is a modern highly mechanized enterprise in the Russian North. The port specializes in transshipment of cargo from fishing vessels, mother ships and reefers. Russian Government owns a 100% stake in MMFP OJSC through the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management and Russia Federal Property Fund, the Gov. agency. Throughput of MMFP in 2009 grew by 36% compared to last year’s output, up to 255.000 tons of fish.