Chinese co, Tranzit-DV to build container terminal in Primorye
VLADIVOSTOK. June 25 (Interfax) - Chinese state assets management company Jun Gun Shin and Russia's Tranzit-DV group signed an agreement Wednesday on the joint construction and operation of infrastructure at the Slavyanka port in Primorye for transit container shipments.
Tranzit-DV told Interfax that there are plans to build a container terminal in Slavyanka and set up roadstead transshipment facilities that would make it possible to load and unload container ships in the roadstead, without having to dock them.
Commercial freight from northeastern provinces of China will be loaded onto container ships at the Slavyanka port for subsequent shipment throughout the world. Transshipments are expected to total 10 million tonnes annually.
There are also plans to invest in associated infrastructure, such as the expansion of the road from Slavyanka to the border with China and construction of a five-star hotel in the town.
Tranzit-DV president Igor Polchenko said that a decision was made at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev in Vladivostok on Monday to include Slavyanka among areas of accelerated development and to develop the international transport corridor Primorye-2.
"The agreement with our strategic investor, the company Jun Gun Shin, does not only call for development of port infrastructure. Under the agreement, container ships belonging to Chinese shippers will call at Slavyanka to get cargo. In addition, the contract calls for the creation of a joint Russian-Chinese shipping company that will develop the Northern Sea Route, shipping commercial cargo along it," Polchenko was quoted as saying by Tranzit-DV Group's press service.
The Primorye-2 corridor of about 79 km links the Chinese province of Jilin, through the city of Hunchun and the Russian town of Kraskino, with the ports of Zarubino, Posyet and Slavyanka.
Tranzit-DV Group is a holding company that provides services on the energy resources (oil products, coal, natural gas) processing and delivery, ship fuelling and marine shipping markets. The group owns a fleet and marine oil loading terminal in Slavyanka.