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The Nornickel-Yenisei River Shipping Company, which manages the river assets of Norilsk Nickel, has stated that the Krasnoyarsk and the Lesosibirsk River Ports – both of which service inland traffic to the Arctic Ocean, are capable of increasing their throughput capacities to 2 million tonnes per year each, but the fleet is loaded 100%.
Olga Ksanf, the company general director said “The Yenisei River Shipping Company fleet has been 100% involved in the last four navigation operations on the river. We start navigation in early May and end at the beginning of November, when the fleet returns to Krasnoyarsk. There is an opportunity to increase the cargo flows of the Krasnoyarsk and Lesosibirsk River Ports by up to 2 million tonnes per year, each but the existing fleet is fully loaded,” Ksanf said at the Siberian Transport Forum on Wednesday (June 19).
The throughput capacity of both ports is currently 1.2 million tonnes per year (total cargo turnover is 2.4 million tonnes), she said. That capacity could increase by up to 70%.
The Yenisei River Shipping Company is the largest transport enterprise in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, transporting goods and passengers in the Yenisei and Angara basins. The company intends to transport 3.5 million tons of cargo during the 2024 navigation period.
Catching up with the demands being placed on Arctic developments – much of which is needed to support the Northern Sea Passage route between the Russian Arctic and Asia – involves significant resources in energy supplies as well as rail connectivity in addition to ocean icebreakers and inland shipping. Several Russian shipyards are currently heavily employed with building 160 new Arctic-class vessels by 2030.
