European sulphur terminal will be put into operation by the end of 2015, IAA PortNews correspondent cites PhosAgro CEO Andrey Guryev, as saying at the ceremony of launching Smart Bulk Terminal for transshipment of PhosAgro fertilizers.
“The first storage facility has been built, the second one nears completion. The terminal has already handled 0.5 mln t of cargo”, Andrey Guryev also said.
According to Andrey Guryev, the terminal will be fully operational in late December 2015.
Under long-term contract PhosAgro is building new terminal facilities with the first phase of 100,000 t in capacity to be launched in summer 2015. Via this terminal, PhosAgro plans to transship and sell at least 1 mln t of fertilizers per year with a possibility to load containers onto Panamax ships and store products free of charge.
European sulphur terminal is located at commercial seaport of Ust-Luga (Luga Bay, south-east of the Gulf of Finland). The terminal’s hi-tech equipment can handle granulated and lump sulphur. Design capacity of the terminal is 4.5 mln t per year, depth at the berths – 16 m, wharf length - 500 m. The terminal is able to accommodate vessels of up to 70,000 in displacement.
PhosAgro is Europe’s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilizers, the world’s largest producer of high-grade phosphate rock and the world’s second largest producer (excluding China) of MAP and DAP (according to Fertecon), Russia’s only producer of feed monocalcium phosphate (MCP), and also the sole producer of nepheline concentrate in Russia. PhosAgro’s primary assets include Apatit, PhosAgro-Cherepovets (established as a result of the merger of Ammophos and Cherepovetsky Azot), Agro-Cherepovets, Balakovo branch of OJSC Apatit, Metachem, PhosAgro-Trans, PhosAgro-Region and NIUIF.
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