In total, the company intends to build at least seven dry ports in the Russian Federation with a total investment volume of more than 120 billion rubles.

February 10 2024

The “Fininvest” company plans to increase its network of transport and logistics centers (TLC) to 11 units. The nearest project is the ‘Artem’ TLC near Vladivostok, which will unite the company’s railway and maritime services. Mr. Vitaly Potapov, Deputy General Director of “Logoper” LLC (part of the “Fininvest” group) spoke about this at the ‘Infrastructure Business Initiatives’ forum.

According to him, the “Artem” TLC will be built in the suburbs of Vladivostok, not far from the seaport. The terminal’s design capacity is 1 million TEU per year, area 417 hectares, total length of track approaches 70 km, it has 10 loading / unloading sites each with a length of 1050 m. TLC will commence limited operational activities in 2024, completion of construction is scheduled for 2027. The project is a rear terminal, whose task is to move operations that are not typical for the port beyond its borders.

“The technological uniqueness of the TLC lies in the fact that it is adjacent to two railway stations providing a ring traffic for container trains. Here it will be possible to receive and send double capacity container trains, as well as load containers in non-specialized cars. All this will ensure high throughput of the terminal and reduce the load on public infrastructure,” explains Vitaly Popov.

Today the company owns four terminals: two in Moscow and one each in Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. At least seven more will be constructed. The demand for the services of such terminals has grown noticeably over the past two years, commented Mr. Potapov.

Thus, the company will create a network of 11 TLC with a total capacity of 5.65 million TEU per year, covering all major transport flows: ‘Khovrino’ (250 thousand TEU per year), ‘Elektrougli’ (1 million TEU), ‘Caspian’ (300 thousand TEU), ‘Ural’ (600 thousand TEU), ‘Omsky’ (300 thousand TEU), ‘Sibirsky’ (1 million TEU), ‘Kuzbass’ (300 thousand TEU), ‘Krasnoyarsky’ (300 thousand TEU), ‘Irkutsk’ (300 thousand TEU), ‘Khabarovsky’ (300 thousand TEU) and ‘Artem’. The total investment volume is more than 120 billion rubles.

The main goal of these transformations is to build an “end-to-end chain” of multimodal services combining the railways and seaports in the Far East. “In addition to investing in ‘dry’ ports, we are increasing our transport assets. 35 thousand 40 ft containers were purchased in 2023. We launched our own shipping line in the Far East, “Panda Express Line”, operating a fleet of six ships with a capacity of about 6 thousand TEU.”

According to a representative of the “Fininvest” group, the container traffic will grow in the next decade due to the containerization of new types of cargo, as is the case with grain and fertilizers. The growth of container turnover will be facilitated by trade with China and Asia-Pacific countries, and the importance of the Eastern range and Far Eastern ports will increase. To improve the process, it is necessary to develop the digitalization of multimodal services.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/359488/