Novozybkovsky Machine-Building Plant JSC, Bryansk Region, Russia based company of RailTransHolding, has transshipped a batch of hopper wagons ordered by a company from the Republic of Guinea (Western Africa). RailTransHolding says the wagons intended for transportation of bauxites have been delivered to MSCC Bronka (Multipurpose Sea Cargo Complex Bronka, Big Port St. Petersburg) and then transport by a ship to the Port of Conakry.
RailTransHolding Management Limited Liability Company (RailTransHolding MC LLC) was founded in 2011. It is a group of companies that includes enterprises of heavy machine-building, railroad and automobile sectors providing a broad range of production, transport and logistical services.
MSCC Bronka (Multipurpose Sea Cargo Complex Bronka) is a new deepwater terminal at the port of Saint-Petersburg. The project is implemented through private-public partnership. Investments from the federal budget (RUB 17 bln) allowed for building an access canal and water area with a depth of 14.4 m as well as a transport junction with a direct connection of Bronka to the ring road. Construction of coastal infrastructure through project financing with Fenix LLC as a private investor began in 2011. In December 2015 it was completed and the first phase of the project was put into operation.
The capacity of Bronka’s Phase 1 is 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. In the future the MSCC Bronka expansion will help increase the facility's container throughput to 1.9 million TEUs. Port Bronka is able to accommodate Post-Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class. The port territory comprises a logistics center and a State Border checkpoint. In April 2017, MSCC Bronka was acknowledged as a strategic investment project of Saint-Petersburg, and is initiator Fenix LLC – as a strategic investor.