Russia's Daltransugol increases coal transshipment 15.5% in Feb amid higher rail deliveries

VLADIVOSTOK. March 11 (Interfax) - JSC Daltransugol (DTU), a coal terminal at the Vanino Port managed by JSC Port Alliance, transshipped 1.367 million tonnes of coal in February 2025, up 15.5% compared to a year earlier, the stevedoring company said.

It was previously reported that the terminal handled 949,700 tonnes in January, down 27.3% year-on-year.

Coal transshipment in January-February 2025 thus amounted to 2.317 million tonnes (data for January-February 2024 has not been disclosed).

"Daltransugol's cargo turnover increased 15.5% in February this year. The growth was driven by a positive trend from Russian Railways in increasing coal shipments for export to Far Eastern ports," the company said.

Daltransugol is one of the largest coal terminals in Russia by cargo turnover. It is located at the deepwater bay of Muchke in Khabarovsk Territory. It has access to the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur mainline railways. The port, which was built in 2008, is designed to transship coal from SUEK to end consumers in China and other Asian countries.

Daltransugol received resident status at the Free Port of Vladivostok in September 2020 to implement a project for increasing the terminal's capacity from the current 24 million tonnes a year to 40 million tonnes a year by building a third stage. The work is due to be completed by August 31, 2026.

The terminal handled 14.5 million tonnes of coal in 2024, down 9% from 2023.

Port Alliance, which was established in March 2024, also includes JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport , Murmansk Bulker Terminal LLC, Tuapse Bulker Terminal LLC and Maly Port LLC in Nakhodka, Primorye Territory. The company's five assets have combined capacity to handle over 53 million tonnes of cargo per year. All of these companies were previously part of the National Transport Company.