14/10/2021
FSUE “Rosmorport has completed work on the modernization of two berths in the seaport of Pevek, carried out for two years. The berths can accept vessels with a draft of up to 8.6 m. Commissioning of the facilities is planned until the end December 2021. Mr. Viktor Bochkarev, director of Chukotka Autonomous District industrial policy department, reported it.
The estimated cargo turnover of the Pevek seaport will be 800 thousand tons per year. It is the northernmost seaport in Russia, located in the Chaunskaya Bay of the East Siberian Sea. Pevek is open for entry of all classes of ships during the summer navigation, processing cargo for the “Northern delivery” operation which ensures the vital activities of the Chaunsky and Bilibinsky districts of Chukotka, a region that does not have a railway connection and highways. Since September 2019, the world’s first floating nuclear thermal power plant (FNPP) “Akademik Lomonosov» is basing in the port of Pevek.