02 June 2004 17:12
NOVOROSSIISK SEAPORT TO INVEST UP TO 20 BLN RUBLES IN DEVELOPMENT
MOSCOW. June 1 (Interfax) - Novorossiisk Sea Trading Port, one of the Commonwealth of Independent States'
largest, will be investing up to 2 billion rubles in equipment and technological development, company press secretary
Mikhail Volkhin told Interfax. The company put around 5 billion rubles into development in 2001-2003, he noted.
The port has put in a laser system for berthing multi-tonne vessels at the fourth deep-water moorings of the oil
region Sheskharis. The LDS- 200 system equipment designed and built by the Danish company Marimatech was installed by
Russian specialists.
Since 2004 began, he said, the company has bought new automated
loaders, mobile Gottwald cranes (from 40 to 100 tonnes of lifting
"The application of this cutting-edge mooring system makes it possible for the company to significantly increase
the speed of berthing work, increase its quality, cut vessel-handling time and, consequently, increase the reliability
and attractiveness for clients of the port's oil cargo transshipping," Volkhin said.
capacity) and modern cargo-capture contraptions.
Novorossiisk Sea Trading Port handled 66 million tonnes of cargo in 2003 (50 million tonnes of liquid oil products
and 16 million tonnes of dry cargo), which was a 5% increase on 2002. The plan is at least 68 million tonnes this
year.
The port's main stockholders are the government (20%), Nikoil (20%), Russian General Bank (13.8%) and Hotshore
Investments Co. of Cyprus.
[Interfax] |
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