By 2015, total throughput of Leningrad region ports is likely to grow by 250-300 million tonnes due to implementation of projects aimed at development of port infrastructure in Ust-Luga, Vysotsk, Vyborg and Primorsk, press center of the regional government cites Nikolai Pasyada, Vice-Governor of the Leningrad region as saying at the 2nd builders’ congress of the Leningrad region.
According to the vice-governor, the region is likely to become a leader of port services at the Baltic Sea, which is to contribute to solving a key national task aimed at transfer of cargo flows from the ports of the neighboring states to the ports of Russia.
Nowadays port complexes of the Leningrad region handle a quarter of total Russian throughput. Last year, stevedoring companies of Vyborg, Vysotsk, Primorsk and Ust-Luga handled 99 million tonnes of different cargo. During last seven years cargo throughput of the region’s ports grew over 23-fold, Pasyada said.