Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will become an international port hub at NSR – head of Kamchatka

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky can and should become a port hub at the Northern Sea Route for both Russia and foreign vessels, press center of Kamchatka Government cites Kamchatka Territory Governor Vladimir Ilyukhin. According to him, post-voyage repair, bunkering and crew exchange can be performed on Kamchatka.

Dry cargo carrier Engineer Trubin (registered in Arkhangelsk, Northern Shipping Company) has recently completed her voyage from port Sabetta along the Northern Sea Route with the call on Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It is the first practical experience for the Urals Federal District to deliver cargo along the NSR with the use of port Sabetta being built on the Yamal Peninsula.

“Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the only NSR port in the northern part of the Pacific coast, and it is an ice-free port. Today, representatives of shipping companies in the Asia-Pacific region are quite active in their strivings to use this route, so, amid intense development of the Arctic shelf, this work is of state importance, - Vladimir Ilyukhin said. - Arrival of the Engineer Trubin is a kind of a starting point for a new significant work related to the development of the northern sea route. We have already head an experience of shipping fish from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Saint-Petersburg. It was a success and we have to consolidate it.”