First phase of Big Port Zarubino to be launched in 2018
First phase of Big Port Zarubino is to be launched in 2018. As IAA PortNews was informed by Marat Shaidayev, BoD member of Summa Group (project investor), the first phase is to ensure transshipment of up to 500,000 TEUs per year, up to 10 mln t of grain, cargo transshipment via multipurpose sea terminal and servicing of passenger ships.
Big Port Zarubino project is being implemented by FESCO Group (controlled by Summa Group). The company presently preparing a Declaration of Intent. Then a designer will be selected in the course of a competition.
The port will have tugboats, bunkering vessels, firefighting systems (at least 15 units all in all). The company does not reveal the volume of investments into this part of the project or into the project in general.
The construction is to commence in the second half of 2015.
Up to 60% of the cargo flow will come from China; export to the Asia-Pacific Region will account for 30% of the cargo flow with 10% of it to be ensured by export/import operations of Russian companies.
As Summa Group told IAA PortNews, it is going to build a transshipment complex in Zarubino (Primorsk Territory) with annual capacity of 100 mln t per year. The complex is to comprise a container, grain, alumina and multipurpose terminals.
The container terminal is to handle 500,000 TEUs per year (phase I) with phases II and III to ensure transshipment of 1.5 mln TEUs and 2 mln TEUs respectively. The terminal is to see some 680 calls per year. The quay line is to be 1,800 m long.
The capacity of the grain terminal is the following: 10 mln t per year (phase I), 20 mln t per year (phase II) and 40 mln t per year (phase III). Total storage capacity – 400,000 t, quay line length – 1,530 m.
Alumina terminal is to handle 2 mln t of cargo per year.
Annual capacity of the multipurpose terminal is 25 mln t of general cargo, 1.5 mln of Ro-Ro units. Passenger flow is expected at 500,000 persons per year. The quay line is to make 1,645 m.
The project is included into the Federal special-purpose programme “Economic and Social Development of the Far East and Baikal region through 2025”.