Throughput of port Murmansk to surge over 3-fold to 74.4 mln t by 2025

Throughput of port Murmansk is to be boosted to 74.4 mln t by 2025, over 3-fold against 2014, IAA PortNews journalist cites Dmitry Sosnin, Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Murmansk Region, who spoke at the 8^th International Forum ‘Transport and Transit Potential’ in Saint-Petersburg.

According to him, the port is expected to handle 63.2 mln t of cargo by 2020. Coal transshipment in 2020 and in 2025 is to make 34 mln t, the volume of oil products delivered by railway – 13.3 mln t.

At the same time, transshipment of oil products delivered by water is expected to grow from 5 mln t in 2020 to 15 mln t in 2025 with introduction of off-shore transshipment complex of RPK Nord CJSC near Krasnoshchelye.

The port of Murmansk located at the eastern coast of the Kola Bay (Barents Sea) is the largest port in the Arctic circle and one of Russia’s largest ice-free ports. It is the home port of all nuclear icebreakers of Russia. The port comprises a fishing port, a commercial port and a passenger port.