Handling of exports / imports by EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port (EVRAZ NCSP) for the first half of 2012 totaled nearly 3.5 million tons, up 9% over the same period last year, the company said.
Exports of ferrous metals, the main cargo passing through the port, rose to nearly 2 million tons versus 1.6 million tons a year before. The six-month volume of coal totaled more than 1 million tons.
In the reporting period the port was handling non-ferrous metals, coke, timber, fertilizers, imported vehicles, machinery, pipes and general cargo.
EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port, a largest port in Russia’s Far East, is located in the eastern Gulf of Peter the Great, in Nakhodka Bay. The port is linked to the Eurasian continent through the Trans-Siberian Railway, serving the Asia-Europe-Asia trade flows. The port is capable to unload up to 450 rail cars a day.
JSC EVRAZ NCSP operates on 15 cargo berths and one facility for handling the port’s workboats, of total length of 3.5 km, which can accommodate ships with length of 230m, breadth of 32m and draft of 11 m. Currently, at least 15 ships are able dock at the port’s berths simultaneously and the port is able to handle more than 1,500 large vessels a year.