Vostochny Port selects contractor for development of its railway infrastructure (photo)
JSC “Vostochny Port” has selected a contractor for the final stage of building and assembly works at Nakhodka Vostochnaya station as a part of the construction of Phase 3 of the Coal Handling Terminal. The Construction Company “Vostokstroymekhanizatsiya, Ltd.” is the winner of the contest. The working cost will amount to 891 million rubles.
The reconstruction and development project for the Far East largest station yard is implemented within a public and private partnership, with the technical specification being prepared by JSC “Russian Railways” and the funding financed by both “Managing Port Company, LLC.” and JSC “Vostochny Port”. No State budget resources will be involved.
The building and assembly works are divided into two stages. By the end of 2017, the public tracks of the empty stock dispatch facility will be connected to the Nakhodka Vostochnaya yard infrastructure. Then, new private tracks for arriving loaded wagons will also be connected to the infrastructure. The entire scope of work for the railroad facilities construction and connection to JSC “Russian Railways” infrastructure shall be completed on or before December 31, 2018.
The Construction Company “Vostokstroymekhanizatsiya, Ltd.” is to equip the railroad facilities with an automated wagon inventory number tracing system, which will enable to identify wagon numbers automatically, with the train moving at a speed of up to 60 km/hr.
Another technology that will be used for the new railroad facilities is the electric point heating which will ensure smooth operations during severe winter weather conditions. Moreover, noise screens and outdoor lights will be installed in both arrival and dispatch facilities.
“We are making heavy use of new technologies for the facility construction to increase the wagon handling rate and improve the failure tolerance of the equipment. Trouble-free running of the railroad is a key factor to the port cargo turnover growth”, comments Vyacheslav Nalobin, Head of the facility under construction directorate.
As a reminder, the total investments of “Managing Port Company, LLC.” into the reconstruction and expansion of the empty stock dispatch facility and construction of the facility for arriving loaded wagons at Nakhodka Vostochnaya station exceed 4.7 billion rubles.
Vgrangel, Primorsky Krai based Vostochny Port JSC is Russia's largest dedicated open access coal port using covered stations for unloading and transfer of coal, conveyor equipment, rotary car dumpers, shiploaders and the second-to-none system of multi-stage magnetic coal separation. The port handles coal mined and exported by Russian coal companies. In 2016 coal throughput at the terminal reached 23.5 million tonnes, a fifth of all coal exports from Russia's seaports and about 30% of coal transshipment in the ports of the Far Eastern basin.
Since the port construction completion 390 million tonnes of coal have been exported through the facility and 6.6 million rail cars have been handled, 28,000 vessels have been received at the port berths. Over the past ten years, JSC Vostochny Port has shipped more than 200 million tonnes of coal, an all-time record among all Russian coal ports.
Vostochny Port JSC is a free access terminal, open to all coal producers. The enterprise's main objective is the increase in coal throughput and the best quality of cargo handling services: ensuring an uninterrupted supply chain and loading the commodity to the most efficient types of vessels for the formation of new supply routes.
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.
Port Management Company LLC is Russia's major coal port holding that exercises the powers of a single executive body of largest dedicated coal ports based in the Baltic Sea region (Rosterminalugol JSC, Ust-Luga, Leningrad Region) and in the Far East (Vostochny Port JSC, Wrangel Bay, Primorsky Territory).Total coal throughput by the 2016 year-end results of the holding's stevedoring companies reached 41.5 million tonnes, which is more than one third of all seaborne coal exports from Russia. The commodity is exported to more than 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. By 2019, according to PMC' estimates the total annual coal throughput across marine coal terminals will increase to 56.5 million tonnes.
The PMC LLC was founded in 2008. Since then coal volumes handled at Vostochny Port leaped by more than 60%, and in 2016 totaled 23.5 million tonnes. Between 2010 and 2017, the PMC Holding implemented a program of production optimization, handling equipment modernization and upgrade.
In 2016, another stevedoring company JSC Rosterminalugol became member of the PMC Holding. Following the 2016 year-end results coal volumes at Rosterminalugol terminal reached a record high of 18.1 million tonnes.
Dedicated coal ports of the holding, Vostochny Port and Rosterminalugol, are fitted with the cutting-edge equipment for closed transshipment of coal.
A specific feature of the holding’s activities is the search and introduction of the best technologies available to increase coal transshipment and improve environmental safety. The ports boast the world’s best equipment, unique import substitution technologies and self-engineered products.
