Far Eastern Basin Branch News

Meeting concerning providing of round-the-clock operation of the seaport of Posyet

Meeting concerning providing of round-the-clock operation of the seaport of Posyet was held in the port on May, 18th, 2010. Acting director of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Vladivostok branch A.I. Novichkov, operating director of OAO “Trading port Posyet” I.I. Prishchepov, chief engineer of OOO “Mechel-Trans” A.V. Kulman, captain of the seaport of Posyet A.A. Kislov, commander of military unit № 31101 J.I. Ovchinnikov took part in the meeting.

It was noticed at the meeting that, considering OOO “Mechel-Trans” plans to increase the volumes of cargoes processing in the seaport of Posyet to 4 million tons during the current year, round-the-clock operation of pilots and tows, and also tows of higher capacity were required.

For the purposes of realization of port development plans OAO “Trading port Posyet” intends to start in 2010 the construction of 290 m length mooring № 01, with commissioning in the end of 2011, and then the construction of approaching channel with commissioning in the middle of 2012. That will allow to process vessels of carrying capacity to 60 thousand tons in the seaport of Posyet.

During the meeting questions of installation of an automatic meteorological station “Vaisala QML201”, works on re-equipment of floating signs in the seaport and on approaches to it and additional training of pilots of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Vladivostok branch on visual and radar-tracking training simulator were discussed also.