Far Eastern Basin Branch News

Checkpoint in the Sea Terminal Plastun Closed

By Order of the Russian Federation Government No. 2-r dated 13.01.2015, the permanent sea cargo checkpoint Plastun across the Russian Federation state border was closed.

The checkpoint closing is conditioned by the fact, that in its stead a section of sea unified cargo and passenger multilateral checkpoint across the Russian Federation state border will be operating within the Plastun sea terminal of the seaport of Olga, borders of which were earlier approved by Order No. 193-OD of Rosgranitsa dated August 10, 2015.

For reference:
Within the checkpoint across the Russian Federation state border in the seaport of Olga there are located three berths of the Far Eastern Basin branch, which is 27.3% of the total number of Berths in the seaport of Olga.

According to the results of 2015, in the seaport of Olga almost 1,4 mln tonnes of cargo were handled, including 935,9 thousand tonnes of export and import cargo. On the berths of the Far Eastern Basin Branch in the seaport of Olga 73,6 thousand tonnes of import and export cargo were handled, which is 7,9% of the total amount of import and export cargo handling in the seaport.