Andrei Ruchjev has been elected the Chairman of Port Vysotsky BoD, says the press center of the stevedoring company. The decision was made on February 1, 2016, at the meeting of the Board of Directors.
Andrei Ruchjev says his main task as the BoD Chairman is the implementation of the programme on the port capacity expansion to 12 mln t per year through creation of a modern dedicated terminal in Vysotsk for transshipment of Russian coal.
Andrei Ruchjev was on July 3, 1954 in Leningrad.
In 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Technology.
From 1980 – worked at state security agencies.
From 2003 – Head of Karelian Department of FSB.
From 2005 – Deputy Head of Counterintelligence Service at FSB.
From 2007 till June 2015 — Head of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region Department of FSB.
Port Vysotsky LLC specializes in transshipment of Russian coal exported to the Western Europe. The port’s water area and the approach canal are 12.7 meters deep with the width of the canal totaling 200 metres. In 2015, the company handled 5.67 mln t of cargo (+7.7%).
Port of Vysotsk is located in the Leningrad region of Russia. There are two stevedoring company operating at the port: Port Vysotsky LLC and RPK-Vysotsk-LUKOIL-II LLC. In May 2012, the Russian government decided to expand the Vysotsk port territory, including in its boundaries the land and adjacent waters occupied by facilities of a general cargo terminal under construction. The terminal capacity is projected to reach 3 million tonnes a year.