From the beginning of 2013, EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port handled over 5 mln t of cargo, the company’s press center says.
In august 2013, EVRAZ NCSP handled over 764,000 t of export/import cargoes (+45%, year-on-year).
Transshipment of export coal almost tripled: 433,000 t against 165,000 t in August 2012.
Transshipment of ferrous metal hit 302,000 against 282,000 in August 2012.
In the 8-month period, the port’s throughput climbed by 6%, year-on-year.
Coal and ferrous metal made the core of all operations (2.38 and 2.15 mln t respectively).
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.
EVRAZ is a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa. EVRAZ is among the top 20 steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 15.9 million tonnes in 2012.