Kamchatka looks into accepting and servicing of vessels sailing along NSR

The development of port infrastructure in the Avachinskaya Bay will let accept and service vessels on the Northern Sea Route providing services on ship repair, cargo transshipment and bunkering. This has been announced by Kamchatka Territory Governor Vladimir Ilyukhin at his meeting with Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the Government’s press center says.

The Governor expects the creation of a Priority Development Area in Kamchatka to give a good impetus to port business development in the region. 

Kamchatka PDA has been recently approved at the meeting of the Governmental Sub-Committee headed by Yury Trutnev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District.

On his working trip to Kamchatka, Dmitry Rogozin also visited the production facilities of North-East Repair Center (NERC OJSC).

Vladimir Tsybin, Acting Director General of NERC said: “The Center’s production facilities let repair vessels servicing drilling rigs, offshore production platforms, Arctic fleet. There is a task of fishing fleet repair.  It is cheaper than going to let’s say Pusan”.

Dmitry Rogozin, in his turn, emphasized that in view of Arctic and Northern Sea Route development “it is necessary to analyze the situation, estimate the peninsula’s potential in terms of industry, transport infrastructure and ship repair opportunities so that vessels bound for Northern Sea Route could be serviced in Kamchatka”.

North-East Repair Center OJSC is one of the largest ship repair yards in the North-East of Russia. Established in 1957, the company specializes in repair and disposal of Navy’s equipment. Loading of the Center’s production facilities is as high as 81.5%, production volume – RUB 687.9 mln. The recent three years have seen the gain in production of 542.5%.