On 28 March 2017, Nornickel Group opened a newly reconstructed berth of Murmansk Transportation Branch (MTB), IAA PortNews correspondent reports.
Investments into the berth reconstruction totaled RUB 2.4 bln. Total allocations of the company for modernization of Murmansk terminal made RUB 4.6 bln.
The reconstructed terminal will be able to double its capacity to 1.5 t of containerized cargo per year.
The major part of MTB's freight traffic is Norilsk Nickel in-house cargos: products, materials, and equipment. Additionally, MTB renders cargo transportation and transloading services for third parties. These are usually social commodities for Norilsk citizens, e.g. foodstuff, medicines, and household items.
MTB operates five modern arctic ice-class container vessels, tanker, and harbor icebreaker. With its own fleet Norilsk Nickel is absolutely transport-independent at the Arctic shipping distance.
Nornickel is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the leading producers of platinum and copper. It also produces various by-products, such as cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.
The Group is involved in prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals, as well as in production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals.
Nornickel’s production facilities are located on three continents and in five countries: Russia, Australia, Botswana, Finland, and South Africa.
he main Russian production units are vertically integrated and include the Polar Division (“the Taimyr Peninsula”) and the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (“Kola MMC” or “the Kola Peninsula”).
The Polar Division is located above the Polar Circle on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsky Region. Its entities are connected to other regions of the country, via the Yenisei river and the Northern Sea Route, as well as by air. Kola MMC is located on the Kola Peninsula, which is the largest industrial producer in the Murmansk region, and is fully integrated into the transport infrastructure of the Northwest Federal District of the Russian Federation.