Throughput of Vostochny Port OJSC up 3% in Jan.-Apr. 07, y-o-y

Vostochny port's cargo handling facilities are located in the southern part of the Primorsky Krai, in the ice-free deepwater natural bay of Vrangel. Vostochny port LLC is the largest stevedoring company of Russia’s Far East. It specializes mainly in transshipment of coal. In 2006, transshipment complexes of Vostochny port LLC handled over 16 million tons of different cargo. Specialized Coal Complex handled 15.15 million tons of cargo. Multi-purpose Production-and-Transshipment Complex transshipped 1.5 million tons of different cargo.  In 2006, stevedoring company Vostochny port LLC handled 15.31 million tons of export coal 318.6 thou tons of coastal trade coal, 218.3 thou tons of timber. The share of export coal in total cargo turnover made 95.3% in 2006.