OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2011. An opening ceremony of the Yanino Multifunction Logistics Park (LLC) was held in the Leningrad region (All-the-Volga District).

Yanino is the first logistics center, the territory of which unifies container and railway terminals, storage and customs complexes. The Yanino highly developed infrastructure creates favorable conditions for moving a wide range of export and import freights to container transportation as well as ensures a whole range of operations with container and other freights including customs procedures, commercial batch formation, linking up various means of transport.

The construction of the Yanino complex was completed in 2010 and it became one of the largest investment projects aimed at developing the internal container infrastructure in Russia. The Yanino logistics park’s current capacity is 200 000 TEU and 400 000 tons of general cargoes, full rated capacity is 400 000 TEU and 1 000 000 tons of general cargoes.

 Vnesheconombank was the project’s main creditor. It provided 68 million US dollars. The project’s total value is 112 million US dollars. The opening of the park’s infrastructure facilities will make it possible to create about 400 new jobs.

Management Board Member – Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman Anatoly Ballo said: “The construction of the Yanino transport-logistics center aims to address infrastructure problems of the Russian North-Western region’s transport system, reduce load in overloaded port territories through outsourcing some operations beyond the Saint Petersburg Big Port. Funding such infrastructure projects is one of Vnesheconombank’s main lines of activity”.

The project to construct a new logistics park outside Saint Petersburg was implemented by the Global Ports Group of Companies – a leading operator of container terminals in Russia, together with Finland’s Corporation - Container Finance Group.

The Yanino logistics park is located a kilometer and a half from Saint Petersburg’s ring motorway in the All-the-Volga district of the Leningrad region. It is connected with the Saint Petersburg Big Port’s terminals through a railway and a motorway as well as with the Kronshtadt terminal Mobidick through a motorway.