EVRAZ NCSP accepts two new Liebherr loaders

EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port receives two Liebherr loaders within the framework of the second phase of the investment project on modernization of the company’s coal facilities. According to the press center of EVRAZ NCSP, new equipment has already commenced operating at coal berths PPK-3 and PPK-1. 

The bucket loaders service sorting machines and load dumptrucks with coal for further transportation from the wagon unloading area to the vessel loading area. First two Libherr loaders came to EVRAZ NCSP in May 2013. The loaders of L556 modification have buckets capacity of 4.5 m³. 45 port workers were trained to operate the new equipment.

EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port is a major stevedore company operating at the largest Russia’s Far Eastern Port of Nakhodka, 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 able to handle up to 450 rail cars a day. Warehousing facilities area is 300,000 m2. 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.