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servicing the Arctic projects, general cargo consti-
tutes the major bulk for us to transship – including
non-standard and oversized cargoes, which require
a much greater competence than when handling, for
example, bulk cargo.”
Today, Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port is
a focal point within Arkhangelsk transport hub
and a link to manufacturing centers in Siberia and
Northwestern Russia, “North – South” international
transport corridor, and the Northern Sea Route. The
Northern Railway and M-8 Moscow – Arkhangelsk
highway connect ASCP to other Russian regions.
Due to its location – in the immediate vicinity
of the outlet to the White Sea – Ekonomiya is the
most popular, convenient and competitive terminal
as compared to other cargo terminals in the upper
reaches of the Northern Dvina River. Ekonomiya has
seven ferroconcrete berths suitable for accommodat-
ing vessels with a draft of 9.2 meters, length of up
to 195 meters, and deadweight of up to 3,000 tons.
In 2019 and 2020, here moored the nuclear-powered
LASH carrier Sevmorput, the largest vessel ever to
have called at Arkhangelsk. Ekonomiya is installed
with transshipment equipment for handling heavy
loads and is a completely obstruction-free terminal
(devoid of bridges, overhead power lines, ice cross-
ings). Another advantage is permanent license to
transship all types of dangerous goods (Class 1 to 9)
with the exception of Class 7.
Ekonomiya is home to Northern Russia’s only
container terminal with the capacity for 5,033 TEU
and annual turnover of nearly 75,000 TEU. This platforms, purchasing smaller capacity handling de-
terminal is designed for handling all types of con- vices and its fixing its utilities.
tainers, including reefers (power connection for 109 There is a plan to set up an intercepting parking
containers concurrently). Handling on approach lot for heavy trucks. The location chosen for its lies in
ways is done by 40-ton-capacity gantry cranes, 124- the immediate vicinity of Ekonomiya and is designed
ton rubber-mounted boom crane Liebherr LHM, to relieve road network. Relevant land plot leasing ap-
and 45-ton Kalmar and Hyster reach stackers. Con- plication is currently being reviewed by the munici-
sistently operating container lines exist for the Arc- pality board.
tic ports of Dudinka, Sabetta, Salman, and Pevek. Much attention is being paid to digital services. Prac-
ASCP is working to increase its export-bound con- tice has shown that the special nature of ASCP’s cargo
tainer flow and sits on Russian Railways’ working traffic and its having to provide additional handling
group for container transportation. For improved makes ready-made software solutions a poor choice.
transportation safety, ASCP conducts containeriz- Therefore, the company uses Arkhangelsk-based IT ex-
ing operations. perts to develop its own software. A number of digital
“The terminals of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial services are already in place: It is
Port offer the shortest haul for year-round transship- now possible for customers to apply
ment of cargoes bound for the Arctic mining proj- for cargo entry and related services
ects,” says Tsetsen Goryaev. “Shipping to the Arctic online and to receive real-time infor- Терминал «Экономия» в силу
cannot be cheap. It’s a competitive environment, and mation about ship handling status. своего местоположения в
we, on our part, can offer our customers a good value – Once the online services are fully непосредственной близости от
quality service at a decent price and within shortest available, paper document flow will
timeline.” diminish and cargo transparent can выхода в Белое море является
be expected to become transparent at наиболее востребованным,
Priorities all process stages. привлекательным и
“There’s been a lot of talk re-
As we were told by ASCP Director General, the cently about ways to expand and конкурентоспособным
port’s customer strategy is for the most part orient- increase cargo flows. There are, in- Due to its location – in the
ed towards bigger customers. Big orders enable fast- deed, ways to do it, but any such
paced workload and long-term planning, managed by expansion should have sufficient immediate vicinity of the outlet
the administrative team through the decision-making technological and organizational to the White Sea – Ekonomiya is
that ensures high operational speed and efficiency. support,” says Tsetsen Goryaev. the most popular, convenient and
“In fact, today we are turning to the operation- “Our current efforts are concen-
al scenarios discovered back in Soviet times,” says trated on five main destinations – competitive terminal
Tsetsen Goryaev. “There are proven mechanisms Gydan Peninsula (Arctic LNG 1,
for a large seaport to follow. What we do is revive Arctic LNG 2, Ob LNG), Yamal
those earlier solutions, combining them with mod- Peninsula (Yamal LNG, Kharasavey field), Taimyr SOZVEZDYE #38
ern methods and technologies.” (Vostok Oil and Severnaya Zvezda projects), the port
Among the recent operational improvements is of Pevek and Norilsk Industrial District. Our work re-
the switch to freight unit as a measurement for cargo volves around the customers operating in these desti-
record and accounting; commissioning of a dedicat- nations. At the same time, we are looking to expand стратегия
ed site for cargo management and packaging; cargo our portfolio of orders and destinations for timber strategy
flow separation by destination with further handling exports. Other options might include starting a do-
at destination-specific sites. mestic container line, block train shipments, or non-
It wasn’t until recently that the port received the ferrous metals (primarily copper ore) for domestic
capabilities to upgrade and modernize its infrastruc- market. But still, the Arctic projects and the traffic
ture facilities. In 2021, it embarked on the construc- along the Northern Sea Route will continue to be our
tion of new and reconstruction of the existing cargo major focus in the years to come.” 21