In Russia, the total volume of merchandise is estimated to over 1 billion tonnes until 2030. All the northern, north-western, southern and far-eastern ports, will register growth. The authorities are about to approve the Port Infrastructure Development Strategy for 2030.
The development of a competitive infrastructure in the maritime ports and the provision of a complex of port-related services, that respond to the economic demands concerning transport and trade, a modern strategic approach and the use of the best practices, are a few of the objectives of the new Russian Port Infrastructure Development Strategy for 2030.
The Strategy was developed by “Rosmorport”, the federal company in charge with port-related issues, being afterwards approved by the Maritime Council (end of 2012), and currently, it could be adopted by the executive authorities. “The Strategy is to be approved and announced officially. The growth of ports capacity represents the main goal of the Strategy”, Igor Levit, the general director of FSUE “Rosmorport”, declared.
In accordance with the Port Infrastructure Development Strategy, that takes into account the economic tendency and the projects of shippers, until 2030, the volume of merchandise within Russian ports is estimated to rise to 1.3 billion tonnes, a fact that poses serious challenges for the federation, especially in terms of infrastructure. To respond to this necessity, the Strategy aims to raise the port facilities to a necessary capacity, create a new selection scheme of the investment projects and provide a impulse for higher standard service optimization.
Moreover, according to the Russian Railway Institute (IERT), until 2030, the external merchandise exchange transported by the company to, and from Russia’s ports, will grow 3.3 times in the western basin, 3 times in the southern basin and 3.8 times in the far-eastern basin.
Also until 2030, the north-western basin will become the main maritime gate for the hydrocarbon exports, Russian minerals and container-shipped goods. The document states that the highest growth capacity will be provided through the development of the north-western and far-eastern maritime ports, but also through the construction of new ports and the development of the infrastructure in the arctic sphere of the Russian territory. As for the southern basin, it will remain Russia’s biggest maritime point for merchandise transfer; here are planned to be transferred 95% of the bulk goods, 66% RO-RO and 41% of the general merchandise of the country. In accordance with the prognosis regarding the container traffic, the southern basin will give in the container-shipped goods to the other maritime regions, as for the level of the hydrocarbon exports, it will be comparable with the northern basin.
The far-eastern maritime ports will ensure the traffic of resources, represented by minerals, raw materials and wood, that will also be transported through the eastern-western corridor (dedicated to the containers). In this region, the main challenge remains the transfer capacity of the railways.
In 2030, the activity of the northern ports will be concentrated on the transfer of the hydrocarbon extracts (resources from the arctic territory), as well as wood and mineral resources from the northern part of Russia. Here, the main challenge was represented by the development of the necessary infrastructure in the arctic regions.
Therefore, all the investment projects must be harmonized with the common issues regarding port infrastructure development, as the financing models used for their implementation imply different investment schemes: state-financing, the non-budgetary financing (including the fixed-assets of private investors), credit-financing, or financing through joint companies.
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