FSUE "Rosmorport" took part in the 7th Annual Forum "Port Infrastructure: New Construction, Modernization, Exploitation", which took place on March 22-23, 2022 in Moscow Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Andrey Boldorev, Head of the Department of Investment and Strategic Development of FSUE "Rosmorport", made a report on the current state of Russian seaports and their development plans.

The current capacity of the Russian seaports is 1,270 million tons.

According to the results of 2021, the volume of transshipment of cargo in seaports has increased by 1.7 % compared to 2020 - up to 835.2 million tons. The growth was mainly due to dry cargo.

It is planned that with the implementation of measures of the List of the largest projects in the field of water transport, formed by the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the capacity of seaports will reach 1,594 million tons in 2035.

The main development areas in the Far Eastern basin will be coal transshipment terminals in the seaports of Vladivostok (Sukhodol Bay and Cape Otkryty) and Vanino, an LNG terminal in Bechevinskaya Bay of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky seaport, port infrastructure of Korsakov seaport for general and containerized cargo transshipment and creation of a multifunctional cargo area of Poronaysk seaport for transshipment of coal, LNG and oil.

In order to develop an infrastructure for cargo-passenger ferry transportation and supply the population with goods and products, it is planned to reconstruct the onshore facilities of the Vanino - Kholmsk motor-rail ferry service, as well as infrastructure in the seaport of Magadan, construction and reconstruction of port infrastructure facilities in Nikolskoye village of Kamchatka Krai on Bering Island.

The key activities for the Northwest basin are the construction and reconstruction of terminals for the transshipment of mineral fertilizers (in the seaports of Ust-Luga, Big Port of St. Petersburg and Primorsk), coal, grain and general cargo (in the seaports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk, the LNG terminal in the sea port of Vysotsk). In the seaport of Kaliningrad there are plans to reconstruct the dikes of the Kaliningrad Sea Canal and build a terminal to receive cruise and cargo-passenger vessels in the town of Pionersky.

The main areas of development in the Arctic basin will be the construction of a ferry and passenger pier on the left bank of the Anadyr estuary in the village of Ugolnye Kopi, the reconstruction of pier number 7 in the seaport of Anadyr, and the reconstruction of the infrastructure of the seaport of Naryan-Mar. In addition, measures are planned to develop port facilities for the transshipment of LNG, mineral fertilizers and coal in the seaport of Murmansk and a methanol terminal in the seaport of Naryan-Mar.

 In the Azov-Black Sea and Caspian basins it is planned to build and reconstruct terminals for transshipment of coal, mineral fertilizers and ore in the seaport of Taman, general, grain and containerized cargo in the seaport of Novorossiysk, oil, oil products and liquefied hydrocarbon gas in the seaports of Taman and Temryuk. In addition to the above, it is planned to reconstruct the facilities for the safety of navigation in the seaport of Taganrog, to build a grain terminal in the seaport of Makhachkala and to reconstruct the Volga-Caspian sea navigation channel for the development of the international transport corridor "North-South".