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RTL eyes automobile growth
Despite the current global crisis and the hectares and capable of parking 7000 ve- and Odessa, and able to benefit from the
impact on the Russian economy and sales hicles and handling 120,000 cars/year. relative operational efficiency of local
of cars, Russian Transport Lines (RTL) is Phase 2 is set to open this June, adding customs offices.
confident that the Russian automotive another 10 hectares, increasing one-time RTL has a contract with General Mo-
sector will remain important for car mak- storage and annual capacity to 10,500 and tors, so the terminal may be used to han-
ers and accordingly car carriers as well. 170,000 cars respectively. Under phase 3 dle Chevrolet and Opel cars, not only
The company’s director general it would grow to 43 hectares (storage for shipped over Ukrainian seaports but also
Konstantin Skovoroda says that plans to 22,000 cars and with a capacity for made in Zaporizhia, in south east Ukraine.
start up by 2011 a new car terminal at 290,000 cars/year). Aggregate investment In addition, Novoshakhtinsk could be
Novaya Gavan (New Haven) at Vistino - cost and pay back period are estimated at suitable for handling Renault autos as-
RTL says it has every confidence in the long-term viability of the Russian automobile market
a former naval base 12 km to the north US$10M and 2.5 years respectively. sembled in Turkey, imported over the
of Ust-Luga, 40 km from the Estonian RTL Board chairman Dmitriy Russian Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk hours (RTL processed a total of 683,000 then back to dealer centres in southern
border and 70 km from the Saint Scherbakov states that Novoshakhtinsk but currently cleared through Moscow- new autos or more than 50% of the do- Russia. Furthmore, as Novoshakhtinsk
Petersburg ring road, are on schedule. The has an ideal location being close to the based customs. mestic market in 2007), so there would allows cars to be on-shipped as domestic
project comprises ro-ro and container Russo-Ukrainian border, close to Ukrain- Scherbakov says that Novoshakhtinsk be no need to transport them for clear- freight, transportation costs would be cut
facilities occupying 70 hectares. ian ports such as Sevastopol, Ilyichevsk is capable of clearing vehicles within 24 ance to congested Moscow customs and by around 40%.
US$120M is being invested in the facil-
ity, which will have a peak capacity of
120,000 cars/year.
Since last October, RTL has been rent-
ing a 70,000 m
2
ro-ro terminal in Riga,
capable of storing 2500 cars. RTL is al-
ready one of Russia’s leading vehicle im-
porters. In the first ten months of 2008, it
handled a total of 157,337 cars made by
Nissan, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, Honda,
Toyota and Ford, compared to 42,153 au-
tos during the same period of 2007.
In December 2006 RTL and Saint
Petersburg-based Oslo Marine Group
(OMG) launched Onega, Russia’s first
dedicated car transhipment terminal, lo-
cated in Saint Petersburg’s Sea Fishing
Port. The terminal has been expanded and
today comprises four berths with along-
side depths ranging from 7.7m to 11m.
There are now up to 30 ferry calls a
month at the terminal, which has a
monthly capacity of over 30,000 vehicles.
Since May and July last year, RTL has
also been handling ferries in the Third
and Fourth Districts of the port respec-
tively. Its operational area in Saint
Petersburg occupies 115 000 m
2
and is
set to be expanded by another 49,000 m
2
.
Last July RTL officially opened phase
one of the Novoshakhtinsk inland auto-
mobile terminal occupying an area of 15
More cranes
for Callao?
Peruvian Prime Minister Yehude Simon
has held face to face talks with the port
union, Fentenapu, and also with workers’
representatives from both Callao and Paita
ports, in respect of plans put forward to
privatise the national ports industry.
One of their demands is that of re-
storing the 51% of Enapu’s budget that
has been recently withdrawn.
This, argue the unions, would allow
the national ports authority to buy two
new quayside gantry cranes for Terminal
5 at Callao. In addition, there would be
sufficient funds available to repair infra-
structure and invest in other ports.
The new cranes would pose an enor-
mous financial headache for Enapu, be-
cause of import charges. As previusly re-
ported in WorldCargo News, it paid
US$24.5M for two panamax ZPMC
cranes ordered in 2007. ZPMC stated
that the market price for these two
seismically-designed cranes was in the
US$14-15M range and the rest was im-
port charges and taxes.
The unions’ other demands involve
repealing two recent decrees. The first,
1022, allows the transfer of infrastructure
from Enapu to the Ministry of Transport
and Communications, while the second,
1031, effectively forces all state enterprises
to list at least 20% of total equity on the
stock market.
In addition, they want law 047 with-
drawn, since this allows concessions to be
granted to companies without them nec-
essarily agreeing to provide any extra in-
vestment if they are considered financially
sound.
Following discussions the Prime Min-
ister agreed to set up a further meeting
between the unions and the transport
minister. Premier Simon was also told that
the city of Paita has agreed to invest
US$75M in building Terminal 2 at the
port as well as providing all necessary
operating equipment for it.
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