Coal shipments through the berths of JSC Vostochny Port, a largest Russian stevedore company, have reached 10 million tons year-to-date, a record volume in less than seven months, the Company said. Exports accounted for 98.7% of the seven-month coal throughput, 1.3% of coal was carried by coastal ships.
During the same period last year, the Vostochny Port’s terminals PPK-1 and PPK-3 handled 9,657,000 tons of coal.
"Hopefully, we’ll keep up the pace and by the end of the year will handle about 18 million tons," the Company’s press service quoted Managing Director Anatoly Lazarev as saying.
Vostochny Port JSC is the largest stevedore company in the Russian Far East operating in the port of Vostochny. The company specializes in handling of coal using the conveyor equipment.The company’s assets include a Specialized Coal Terminal and Universal Terminal (PPK-1) for handling general and bulk cargoes (coal, coke, clinker, iron ore, timber, etc.) as well as metals, pulp, aluminum, chemical, heavy-lift and oversized cargo. In 2011, the stevedore handled 16.5 million tons, a 12 percent gain year-on-year.