Rosterminalugol expects 2-pct growth of throughput to hit 15 mln t in 2014

Rosterminalugol (Ust-Luga, Leningrad region) plans to increase its throughput by about 2%, year-on-year, to 15 mln t in 2014. This plan was announced by Arthur Sedov, Director of the terminal operations, at the briefing focused on holding of the exhibition “Solids Russia 2015”. The exhibition scheduled for May 2015 will be dedicated to loose cargo industry. According to Arthur Sedov, the company's throughput can be additionally increased by 5% due to introduction of new information technologies. 

The terminal also intends to introduce advanced dust collecting system and the system for automatic clearing of wagons.

OJSC Rosterminalugol was established in 1996 to build and operate the coal terminal at Ust-Luga commercial seaport. The terminal’s design annual capacity is 12 million tonnes of coal. Rosterminalugol specializes in loading / unloading operations, freight forwarding services, building and maintenance of facilities at the coal terminal in the Luga Bay of the Gulf of Finland. 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 2013, coal exports via the terminal gained 6.9%, year-over-year, to 14.72 million tonnes.