OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2011. Freight One plans to start hauling cement for the construction of Vostochny Spaceport near Uglegorsk in Amur Region in 2011.

Cement and other construction materials will be delivered from Spassky Cement Plant in Primorye Territory and Teploozersky Cement Plant in the Jewish Autonomous Region. Freight One client DV Cement, the official distributor of the plants, will be the consignor. According to a preliminary agreement with the consignor, about 1 million metric tons will be delivered over a period of two years.

According to the Russian Space Agency, construction will begin on the new Russian spaceport in summer 2011. The first rocket is expected to be launched from Vostochny Spaceport in 2015, and manned spacecraft are to be launched in 2018.