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Commercial seaports
Commercial seaports play a key role in development of the transportation and logistics networks in Leningrad region.
Cargo turnover of the seaports of Leningrad region came to 139.6 million tonnes of various cargo over three quarters
of 2019 which accounting for 22% of the total cargo turnover of all Russian seaports.
Cargo turnover
Port Brief description
2019
2018 (3 quarters)
Currently Ust-Luga seaport runs 12 terminals which transship liquid and dry bulk,
general and containerized cargo. The terminals provide services involving transshipment,
additional handling, and storage of more than 20 categories of cargo.
98.7 77.5
Ust-Luga million million The commercial seaport with cargo turnover amounting to almost 100 million tonnes
tonnes tonnes plans to increase it up to 180 million tonnes per year. Ust-Luga Company together
with an investor – Novotrans Group of Companies – is participating in implementation
of a project on construction of a multipurpose terminal Lugaport with capacity
amounting to 20-25 million tonnes of cargo annually.
Primorsk is one of the largest oil loading ports in Russia in terms of the transshipment
53.4 46.9 volume. The port carries out large deliveries to the countries of Northern Europe and
Primorsk million million Scandinavia. The port provides services to tankers with deadweight of up to 150,000
tonnes tonnes tonnes. The capacity of the port of Primorsk in terms of oil shipment is 60 million tonnes
per year, in terms of petroleum products shipment – 25 million tonnes.
Vysotsk mainly specializes in handling Russian thermal coal for export. An oil terminal
operated by RPK – Vysotsk Lukoil II is a complex for transshipment of petroleum products
18.7 14.3 with the capacity exceeding 12 million tonnes annually.
Vysotsk million million
tonnes tonnes A specialized grain terminal (carrying capacity – 4 million tonnes per year) with
a production complex for wheat processing (annual capacity – 180,000 tonnes) is being
constructed in the territory of the seaport.
The port has 13 berths, three of them handle dry cargo and other ten are cargo berths.
1.9 900 The cargo turnover of the port of Vyborg increased by 25% in 2018. The volume
Vyborg million thousand of transshipment of bulk cargo increased by 29%, transshipment of coal and coke
tonnes tonnes
increased by 75%, of mineral fertilizers – by 13%.
Railway infrastructure
1 place Operational length of railways:
in terms of the length 1,600 km electrified
of public railways in
Northwestern federal district
85% total length – 3,640 km
of cargo transportation 37 126 668
is carried out by railway
transport in the region railway stations stations platforms
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