Работа Большого порта Зарубино на Дальнем Востоке начнется в 2018 году
Big Port Zarubino, a construction project in the Primorsky Krai that will be managed by FESCO group, will start operations in 2018. As reported during the project's presentation at the First Russian-Chinese EXPO on Monday in Harbin, “In 2018, 80 km from Vladivostok, in a naturally sheltered deep-water bay, work of one of the largest trans-shipping complexes – Big Port Zarubino – will begin.”
As the head of port construction Andrey Zagorsky stated during his presentation, the idea behind the port is to accommodate transit of Chinese goods between the northeastern and southern provinces of China. “By our assessments, up to 60% of the turnover of goods will be transported by this route,” he noted. “In addition, 30% of goods will be export-oriented from the northeast provinces of China to countries in the Asia-Pacific region and North America.” Russian companies will manage up to 10% of the total turnover from import-export operations.
The complex will be housed on 255 hectares; 100 of which will be from existing land, and 155 of which will need to be newly created. The total length of the dock will be up to 3 km long, with 19 quay walls.
“The economic incentive behind the port is to reduce transportation costs on the transit of raw materials and the export-import of finished goods,” said A. Zagorsky. According to him, for example, transportation containers through the new port to and from the Jilin Province will be $250 cheaper than through existing transportation systems. “The convenient geographical location of the port and the $250 cost difference is driving goods proprietors to us,” he stated.
A. Zagorsky imparted that current signed agreements with major shippers provide for almost 80 million tons in turnover of goods. “Today alone, within the first day of the Russian-Chinese EXPO, the cargo base increased by another 10 million tons thanks to the signing of a Jiangqiao grain company,” he said. “I think between today and tomorrow, we will increase it to 100 million tons.”
The port will include terminals for grain handling, containers, roll-on/roll-off, and general and bulk cargos.
According to the presentation, each container terminal will turn over 500,000 containers per year during the first phase, 1.5 million tons during the second phase, and 2 million tons in the third phase.
The universal seaport is designed to turn over 25 million tons of general cargo, and 1.5 units of rolling (roll-on/roll-off) cargo.
The seaport will serve up to 1,000 passengers per day.
The port will also include a specialized alumina terminal, with a capacity of 2 million tons per year. “This is not export alumina, but Rusal products that will be delivered to Russian Federation territory for the production of aluminum,” noted A. Zagorsky.
The grain terminal, during the first phase, is designed to turn over 10 million tons per year; during the second phase, 20 million tons per year; and during the third phase, 40 million tons per year. The aggregate silo capacity is 400,000 tons, with the length of the quay to be more than 1.5 km.
A. Zagorsky stated that as part of infrastructure construction, the project is included in the Federal Target Program for Development of the Far East and Baikal Krai up to 2018, and is subject to extension to 2025.
As discussed earlier, the volume of government investment under this program could reach 7 billion rubles. The volume of private investment is estimated at $290 million in the grain terminal alone, and more than $1 billion overall.
In May of this year, an agreement between Summa Group and the Jilin Province was signed in the presence of PRC President Xi Jinping during Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Shanghai. The provisional agreement included preliminary specifications on structure and volume of cargo traffic through Big Port Zarubino from Chinese companies and the Northeast Asia Chinese railway company.
FESCO (part of Summa Group) is one of the leading private transportation and logistics companies in Russia with assets in the port, railway, and integrated logistics arenas. The group owns OJSC Vladivostok Commercial Seaport, with an annual capacity of 3.9 million tons of general cargo and oil, 150,000 units of automobiles and vehicles, and over 600,000 TEU containers of cargo.