Throughput of Ust-Luga port to grow by 13.6% to 100 mln t in 2016

Total throughput of port Ust-Luga in 2016 is to grow by 13.6%, year-on-year, to 100 mln t, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Mikhail Talanenko, Director General of Commercial Sea Port of Ust-Luga OJSC (a stevedoring company of the port), as saying at the ceremony of signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the port of Kiel (Germany).

Mikhail Talanenko said the port’s throughput in 2015 totaled 87.8 mln t including 22,500 cars.

Ust-Luga port is situated practically at the border of the Russian Federation and the European Union. The deep water area of the port (17.5 m) together with the approach channel (3.7 km) make Ust-Luga port the only Russian port on the Baltic Sea capable of admitting dry-cargo vessels with the deadweight of up to 75,000 tonnes and liquid cargo carriers with the deadweight of up to 160,000 tonnes.