Construction of Piers Number 5 and 6 at the port of Bronka based in St. Petersburg is planned to begin in mid-December 2011, the project investor said.
The facilities construction is being executed on schedule, said Phoenix Ltd. CEO Alexey Shukletsov during the visit of German Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer at the construction site.
One of the project’s objectives was "the creation of the port complex for transshipping the goods that could not be handled in the port of St. Petersburg," Shukletsov said. Today, Russia-bound cargoes transshipped through the ports of neighboring countries account for about 25% of total container trade and 60% of Ro-Ro cargo. All these volumes could be handled by the new port complex, where the arriving vessel will spend just 40 minutes from the entrance buoy to the new port’s berth vs 3.5 hours at Big Port St. Petersburg.
In addition, Rosavtodor, a company in charge of building federal roads, plans to construct the exit from the Ring Road to link it to the access drive of Bronka.
Bronka first phase capacity is projected at 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. The facility’s container throughput is planned to be increased to 1.9 million TEUs. The Bronka Multipurpose Complex will be able to handle Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class. The first ship call is expected in 2014.
A fully-owned subsidiary of JSC Holding Company "Forum" Phoenix Ltd. was founded in 2007 specifically for the construction of the Bronka multifunctional marine cargo complex to be located in the new Cargo Area of the Big Port St. Petersburg. The project is supported by the Russian Ministry of Transport and the St. Petersburg City Administration.