Arkhangelsk Region Governor Alexander Tsybulsky and Norilsk Nickel Vice President Andrey Grachev discussed the future cooperation at the second Arctic - Regions Forum, touching upon the issues of developing infrastructure projects in the field of maritime logistics.
In particular, they discussed the capacities of the Arkhangelsk Sea Trade Port to be used for Norilsk Nickel’s projects, the press service of the Arkhangelsk Region government reports. Over the past five years, about 1.7 million tons of cargo have been shipped from the port of Arkhangelsk to the port of Dudinka for the needs of the Norilsk industrial region. Norilsk Nickel's cargo turnover through the Arkhangelsk seaport averages 300,000 tons per year of various general cargo such as technological and construction materials, as well as metal products.
The cargo from the seaport was used, among other things, to supply the necessary materials for Norilsk Nickel's main strategic projects: the Sulfur Program at the Norilsk division, the modernization of the Talnakh processing plant, the construction of a new processing plant for disseminated ores, the smelter modernization at the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, and the modernization of the energy infrastructure.
"Our cooperation will certainly progress. We will discuss general issues, including talks at the State Council Commission of the Russian Federation on International Cooperation and Export," Grachev noted.
"We are ready to work together, to find solutions for the development of projects in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation," he added.
Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief, Rough&Polished
