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Russia’s FinInvest, which recently became a resident of the Mikhailovsky Priority Development Territory (ASEZ), will build the largest dry port in the Far East, which will be able to handle up to 1 million containers per year. The ASEZ includes land plots totaling more than 822 hectares in Artyom and Arsenyev cities, as well as the Yakovlevsky municipal district in Primorsky.
The first stage of the transport and logistics centre (TLC), which is being built in Artyom, is planned to be launched next year will an initial capacity of 500,000 TEU, increasing to 1 million TEU by 2027. It will primarily serve export-import flows with China, as well as further delivery of goods to Russian regions. Artyom will become the largest dry port in the Far East.
The Artyom transport and logistics centre will include railway, terminal, warehouse and customs infrastructure. Container cargo arriving by rail and road from the ports of Primorye will be stored there, while transhipment will be carried out and container trains will be formed to the regions of Siberia, the Urals and the European part of Russia. It is expected that the main supplier of imported cargo will be Southeast Asia, mainly China.
The total cost of the project is estimated at ₽13.5 billion (US$152 million). It will be implemented in two stages: the first stage of the transport and logistics centre is expected to be launched in 2025, and the second by the end of 2027. The Artyom TLC will be part of a core network of 11 dry ports created by FinInvest in various regions of Russia.
Vladivostok’s International Airport is located near Artyom, while the largest Primorsky Krai railway junction is also located in the city.
Alexander Kakhidze, the General Director of FinInvest, stated that “Artyom TLC will become one of the key objects of the backbone network of multimodal transport and logistics centres in Russia, which is being created by our Group of Companies in order to increase the speed of delivery of cargo in containers along the Russian railway network and reduce logistics costs. The core network will include 11 dry ports located in various regions of our country, with a total capacity of more than 5.6 million TEU per year.”
According to him, the development of a dry port in Artyom will help resolve issues regarding export and import container transportation in the context of the infrastructural limitations of the Eastern range. For example, the Artyom TLC will conduct accelerated processing of container trains, including through the use of technology for loading containers into gondola cars that are released from under coal.
Russia’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV) expects that the launch of the transport and logistics centre will help optimise the work of the Vladivostok and Nakhodka ports, increase the capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway and, in general, the competitiveness of the transport system of the entire Russian Far East. In the first four months of this year, the trade volume between China and Russia grew by 4.7% year-on-year to reach US$76.58 billion.
