Year-to-date coal shipments through the Ust-Luga-based Rosterminalugol terminal have totaled 12 million tons. The 12-millionth ton was loaded onto the M/V Trans Pacific on November 10th.
Rosterminalugol had planned for this year to handle 12,400 million tons of export coal.
JSC Rosterminalugol was established in 1996 to build and operate the coal terminal at Port of Ust-Luga. The terminal’s projected annual coal throughput is 8 million tons. The Company specializes in loading / unloading operations, freight forwarding services, building and maintenance of facilities at the coal terminal. The company also provides insurance services for cargoes and property, the risks of transactions at Ust-Luga port. The terminal has two berths of total length of 540 meters and depth of 14 meters. The terminal is able to accommodate 240-m-long, 32.2-m-wide vessels. In 2011, coal exports via the terminal surged 45.3% year-over-year to 10.9 million tons.