A company from Belarus plans to build a port in Murmansk for transshipment of goods from the republic by 2028 with an estimated capacity of 25-30 million tons of cargo per year, said Andrei Bunakov, General Director of the Arctic Gate Marine Terminal LLC, at the signing of an agreement with the governor of the Murmansk Region Andrei Chibis.
"For the Murmansk Region this is, among other things, the development of a strategic project on the western shore of the Kola Bay. This entails the need to increase the capacity of the railway infrastructure, which I also asked the President of Russia to do. These are all investments in the economy, jobs, salaries and permanent jobs, including at a new level," Chibis said.
For his part, Bunakov said that the port will be built on private investment, and in the future it is planned to use a private-public partnership scheme.
In February, Belarusian ambassador to the Russian Federation Dmitry Krutoy informed that Russian and Belarusian presidents had set the task to ensure the volume of transshipment of Belarusian export cargoes through Russian ports at 20 million tons by the end of 2026, tass.ru reports.
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