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2016 December 8   10:25

Throughput of Vostochny Port JSC up 3.7% to 21.6 mln t in 11M’16

In January-November 2016, Vostochny Port JSC handled 21.6 mln t of cargo (+3.7%, year-on-year).

From the beginning of 2016, the company handled 438 bulk carriers.

According to the stevedore’s statistics, coal exports in November totaled 1.98 mln t (+5.8%, year-on-year).

In November, Vostochny Port JSC set a record of daily unloading of wagons - 1,500 units (over 70,000 t of coal) - the highest result of coal unloading in winter period of 2016. The norm set by Russian Railways is 830 wagons per day.

Vostochny Port JSC (Primorsky Territory) is Russia’s largest publicly available terminal equipped with wagon dumpers, conveyor systems, ship loading equipment and a unique multilevel system of magnetic separation. The terminal exports coal produced by different coal companies of Russia.

In 2015 the port handled 22.8 mln t of coal, one fifth of all coal exports via Russian seaports and about 32% of coal transshipment via the ports of Russia’s Far East Basin.

Vostochny Port JSC LLC is implementing an ambitious investment project on construction of the coal terminal’s Phase 3 including the construction of the federal railway infrastructure. New terminal facilities will be put into operation in 2017 allowing for port capacity to reach 39 mln t in 2019. The coal will be delivered from Kuzbass and other coal fields of Russia.

A sole executive body of Vostochny Port JSC is Port Management Company LLC.