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Port of Saint Petersburg
The JSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg is the largest transportation hub in the North-West of Russia. Convenient geographical position - the Port is located on the island of the Neva mouth in the eastern extremity of the Baltic sea helps to cut transportation, transit and other expenses. The port is connected to the sea by the Seaway channel with the length of 27 miles. The navigation continues all the year round , during winter navigation ice piloting of vessels is provided by the ice-breakers, which are under operational control of the St. Petersburg Port Authority. If necessary, vessels are piloted by powerful tugboats of JCS Port Fleet, whose main function is to carry out manoeuvring and mooring operations within the ports water area. Each vessels, coming to the port, is handled according to the optimum variant with the use of modern equipment. This has been made possible due to the continuous plan schedule, which provides coordination of time of delivery and handling of water, railway and road transport. The time of loading and discharge of vessels is taken account of on a day to day basis, the allocation of fleet is promptly determined. To each cargo operations the Port is ready beforehand. Today vessels from all over the world dock to the berths of Nevskaya Harbour. The guaranteed depths provide safe piloting and convenient berthing to the vessels of up to 260 meters of length and with the draught up to 11 meters.
Today the JSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg handles one quarter of the total volume of foreign trade cargoes among other ports of Russia. The Port continuously increases its cargoflows and improves its internal infrastructure. A constantly increasing turnover confirms the efficiency of the pursued tariff, marketing and advertising policy, cooperation with the customs bodies and high professionalism of the Ports employees. A number of large investment projects have been completed, such as: construction of the first stage of the new container terminal and mineral fertilizers handling complex, which will allow to attract additional cargo traffic.
