Belomorsk Port CJSC has commenced preparation for the construction of a seaport in Belomorsk (Karelia Republic). As PortNews IAA learnt from Andrei Kyachin, Director General of Belomorsk Port CJSC, the company has already purchased the property of the former fishing port (coal terminal, radio station building, highway, northern protective breakwater pier, salt storage facility). Besides, the company has also signed long-term lease agreements (for 49 years) for the plots of land occupied by the property of the former fishing port with total area of 23.9 hectares. It has also completed initial project preparation for construction of an intermediate railway station and port railway infrastructure. An approval has been obtained for promising targets of the port’s throughput and conditions of infrastructure adjacent to Belomorsk station of Oktyabrskaya railway. The Project’s detailed business plan has been developed.