In January-September 2014, EVRAZ Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port handled over 6.8 mln t of cargo (+23.6%, year-on-year), the company’s press center says.
In September, the company handled over 914,000 (+27%), a record high result over the entire post-perestroika period.
The volume of coal loaded to customers’ vessels surged by over 68% to 600,000 t. Daily unloading record was registered on September 22 – 293 open top wagons with coal.
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.