Murmansk Branch News

Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Murmansk Region Visits the Murmansk Branch

On January 28 Dmitry Sosnin, Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Murmansk region paid a working visit to the FSUE “Rosmorport” Murmansk Branch.

Dmitry Sosnin met with Interim Deputy Director of the FSUE “Rosmorport” Murmansk Branch Aleksandr Bengert and representatives of the general contracting organization carrying out reconstruction of the marine station in the seaport of Murmansk, and they discussed the current issues on the progress of the reconstruction project.

As a part of the planned program, the Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the Murmansk region also visited  the construction site of the facility under reconstrusction.

The reconstruction of the marine station in the seaport of Murmansk is carried out in order to construct in the existing building checkpoint facilities across the state border of the Russian Federation to fullfill border, customs and other formalities in respect of passengers, arriving on ocean and marine cruise vessels at the distant lines pier in the seaport of Murmansk. Throughput capacity of the marine station in the area of international cruise lines with a checkpoint section after the reconstruction will amount to 120 passengers per hour.

The completion of the reconstruction of the marine station is scheduled for September, 2016.