Throughput of EVRAZ NCSP up 24% to 4.4 mln t in HI’14

In January-June 2014, EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port handled 4.4 mln t of cargo (+24%, year-on-year), the company’s press center says.

Coal transshipment totaled 2.5 mln t against 1.6 mln t in HI’13. Metal transshipment – 1.8 mln t against 1.7 mln t in HI’13.

In June, the company’s throughput surged by 50% to over 776,000 t including 305,000 to of metal (against 224,000 t in HI’13) and 470,000 t of coal (against 269,000 t in HI’13).

Throughput increase was driven by a number of activities aimed at improvement of the company efficiency, the statement says.

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. 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.