OREANDA-NEWS. September 2, 2008. Murmansk Commercial Sea Port (RTS: MSCP)  processed  9.292  million  tonnes of cargo in January-August 2008, 0.23% less  than  the  9.314 million tonnes in the first eight months of 2007.

The  port handled 1.165 million tonnes of cargo in August, 15% less than in  the  same  month last year. Export shipments were down 14.7% to 1.100 million  tonnes,  including 831,400 tonnes of coal, 168,600 tonnes of apatite and 12,400 tonnes of nonferrous metals.

The  port increased cargo turnover 2.4% to 14.443 million tonnes in 2007.
JSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport was established in 1994 on base of the public enterprise and nowadays it is one of Russia’s busiest ports. The port has 17 berths with total length of some 3,000 meters. The length and depth enables the port to handle vessels of up to 15.5 meters in draft and over 265 meters in length. The port mainly handles non-ferrous metal and alloys, rolled ferrous metal, coal, apatite concentrate, alumina; scrap metal and iron-ore pellets, chemicals in big-bags, construction materials, foodstuffs, technological equipment and containerized cargo. In 2007, the company’s throughput amounted to 14.443.213 million tonnes.