OTAL's Services to the Baltics ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Maritime Transport & Agencies, is
a Scandinavian liner agency group with head office in Gothenburg
and offices located in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Gothenburg,
St Petersburg, Gdynia, Riga, Klaipeda, Tallinn, Poti and Novorossiysk.
Providing efficient liner agency services, these agencies also
provide clearing and forwarding, terminal operations, warehousing,
crewing, bunkering and ship repair services.
Through MTA, OTAL offers a reliable and regular West
African service from the Baltic ports of:
The Port of Gdansk is situated at the intersection
of the principal European transport routes, providing a convenient connection
between both Central and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Additionally,
for countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, the Belarus Republic
and Hungary, the Port of Gdansk provides
easy access to the Baltic Sea.
The Port of Gdansk is divided into two basic
parts. The Inner Port, which extends along Martwa Wisla and Port Channel, can
accommodate vessels of
up to 225 m
in length with a maximum draft of 10.2 m. The second part, the Northern
Port features piers, quays and cargo handling stations located directly in
the
water basins of Gulf of Gdansk. Vessels with a capacity of up to 300,000
DWT and
a draft up to 15 m can be accommodated along the jetties extending from 220
to 765 m in length.
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Total Port Area
662ha
Total Length of operating quays
10,000m
Warehousing area
106,300m2
Open store area
548,000m2
Maximum Draft of vessels
Inner Port - 10.2m, Northern port - 15.0m
Cargo handling capacity
Inner Port - 12 million tons, Northern Port - 43.5 million tons
Work 24 hours a day in three shifts
23.00-07.00, 7.00-15.00, 15.00 - 23.00
Ice free all year long
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For more information please visits the ports
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Port of Gdynia
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Total Port Area
240ha
Total Length of operating quays
10 km
Water depth at quays 6,5
13m
Number of Berths
40
Warehousing area
230,000m2
Open store area
400,000m2
Cranes
up to 100 tons
Port is open 24 hrs - ice free all year long
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For more information please
visits the ports website: Click
here
Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice -
free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is the most important
and the biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway
routes from East to West. The annual port cargo handling capacity is up to
30 million tons.
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Total Length of operating quays
19 216 m
Warehousing area
136 136 m2
Warehouses for bulk
cargo
198 500 t
Open store area
454 920 m2
Tanks for non-oil products
131 000 t
Cold storage facilities
23 254 m2
Maximum Draft of vessels
13.5 m
The depth of the entrance channel
14.5 m
Length of railway tracks
69 200 m
For more information please visits the ports
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here
The Freeport of Riga is located along a 15km stretch
on both shores of the Daugava River. Cargo handling capacity of the terminals
operating in the Freeport is 25 million tons per annum. Main types of cargo
handled in the Freeport are containers, various metals, timber, coal, fertilizers,
chemical cargoes, oil products and food.
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Total Length of operating quays
13, 818 m
Maximum Draft of vessels
11 m
Ice free all year round
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For more information please visits the ports
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Estonia ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Port of Tallinn consists of 4 harbours,
with a total of 64 quays. The total length
of the quays is 11.9 km and the maximum depth is 18 m.
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Muuga Harbour
Old City Harbour
Paljassaare
Harbour
Paldiski South
Harbour
Number of quays
23
23
11
7
Total quay lengths (m)
4710
4074
1859
1207
Covered warehouse area (m2)
89 500
10 400
16 000
7 646
Reefer warehouse area (m2)
11 500
1 700
15 000
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Grain silos (tons)
300 000
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Open storage area (m2)
253 400
52 000
105 000
119 700
Container terminal area (m2)
115 000
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Agency
Details - Estonia
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MTA Tallinn
Maritime Transport & Agencies Ou
Lootsi Str. 11
EE-10151 TALLINN
Estonia Phone: (+372) 6 318171 Fax: (+372) 6 318173 E-Mail:sergei.stanogin@mta.nu
Russia ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Kaliningrad port
Kaliningrad port is located in the mouth of Pregol river, within Kaliningrad
city limits. It is accessible from the Baltic sea via a 24 nautical miles
long canal. Specializes in bulk, general and container cargoes.
Equipped with berths for ferry and RORO type vessels.
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Kaliningrad port
Number of quays
22
Total quay lengths (m)
3 km
Maximum permissible draft
8,0 meters
Maximum
permissible LOA
170 meters
for dry cargo vessel
Covered warehouse area (m2)
60 000
Open warehouse area (m2)
220 000
Isothermal warehouse (m2)
2000
Port cranes hoisting capacity
40 tons
Container terminal handling
up to 25000 TEU per year
Ice free all year round
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For more information please
visits the ports
website : Click here
Finland ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Port of Kotka has traditionally been the foremost export port in Finland.
It has evolved into a full-service logistics hub,
specialised in serving the global logistics needs of Finnish and Russian
foreign trade. The port has a geographical
location next to the Helsinki region but still in the heartland of the
Finnish wood-processing industry and immediately next to Russia with excellent
road, rail and deep-sea connections give a superior logistics advantage.
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Container
Terminal
Bulk Terminal
City Terminal
Hietanen
Terminal
Hietanen
South Terminal
Berths
8
4
8 (RoRo, LoLo)
6 (RoRo)
3 (Bulk)
Total quay lengths (m)
1436m
600m
962m
1033m
360
Draught
10m to 12m
13.5m to 15.3m
7.7m to 10m
7.9m to 10m
8.5m
Cranes
7 Container Cranes, 30t to
40t. 1 Mobile Crane
3 40t, 1 8t
1 60t
1 40t
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For more information please visits the ports
website : Click here
Agency
Details - Finland
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Maritime Transport & Agencies OY
Tammasaarenlaituri 3
FIN - 00180 Helsinki Phone: (+358) 207622573 Fax: (+358) 207622579 E-mail:ulla.pelkonen@mta.nu
Port News ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Swedish Double For TSB - 23/03/09
Korea’s Total Softbank [TSB www.tsb.co.kr] has won another contract from
the Swedish Port of Gothenburg
[www.portgot.se], which last year contracted to replace the Cosmos Ships vessel
planning system with TSB’s
CATOS product. TSB has now won a contract to replace Gothenburg’s Vessel
Traffic Management System
[VTMS] with its own PLUS [Port Logistics Unifying System] application, a comprehensive,
integrated, webbased
port management information system that provides real-time access to the full
range of operational
information of the vessel for users. [WCN 23/03/09]
Record Results Klaipeda Throughput Nears
30m Tonnes - 19/01/09
The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda has announced that it handled a record throughput
of nearly 30m tonnes last
year, an increase of 9% compared with 2007. Throughput increased in almost
all cargo types, but the biggest
growth was in oil products, which were up 31% to 9.4m tonnes; containers, up
16% to 373,300 TEU;
agricultural products, up 33% to 1.7m tonnes, reflecting higher exports of
Lithuanian grain; and bulk
fertilisers, up 5.7% to 5.6m tonnes. Klaipeda also handled more vessels, 8,348
called at the port in 2008, an
increase of 5% on 2007. [LL 19/01/09]
Kotka Aims For Growth - 19/01/09
Kotka has overtaken Helsinki to become Finland’s largest container port,
with an estimated 650,000 TEU
throughput this year. The port also claims to be the largest Finnish port for
car imports. This growth has been
achieved not because additional traffic could not be handled at Helsinki during
the port’s move to a
completely new site at Vuossari, but due to the growth in Russian transit demand.
The port recognises the
challenges and competitive threats to its transit status, but the underlying
trend is positive and it believes that
there is a long term need for a strong EU-based port to handle Russian transit
traffic. [WCN 19/01/09]
Combi-Trailers Move Over Gothenburg - December
2008
Combi-train services catering for semi-trailers have started operating between
the Port of Gothenburg and
three other centres in Sweden - Vännäs [1000 km to the north], Helsingborg
[south west Sweden] and
Liscont -
Operadores de Contentores, S.A.
Terminal de Contentores
de Alcantara – Sul
1399-002 Lisboa, Portugal
Tf: +351 21 392 75 27
Mob: +351 96 700 49 20
Fax: +351 21 397 81 85
Email: cs@liscont.pt
Website: www.liscont.pt
Eskilstuna [central Sweden]. Over the past 10 years
the Port of Gothenburg [GHAB] has invested heavily in
increasing the volume of goods moved by train to and from the port and today
45% of all containers are
transported by rail, around 200,000 containers/year, or 550 fewer large trucks
on the roads each day.
BMT Transport Joins Riga Project - October
2008
The Freeport of Riga Authority has appointed BMT Transport Solutions to work
on a development strategy for the port of Riga. The initiative is part of
a boarder project, the Riga Development Plan. The new strategy will consider
cargo flow, financial forecasts, and EU policy on intermodality, in order
to improve local conditions and save on money. Key objectives set out within
the Port of Riga Development Plan include encouraging growth of ecologically
clean cargo, and ensuring technical capacity within
the port to receive and handle all vessel types.
BMT will also evaluate community relations with
the port, and their social and economic ramifications. BMT is investigating
key obstacles to the port
becoming a strategic centre for trade. There is only one container terminal,
which is working at full capacity and bottlenecks have also been identified
on the local waterways. [CS 10/08]
Russia: US$2bn Terminal Overhaul - September
2008
Russia will see over $2bn spent within 4-years to expand and modernise congested
container and ro-ro terminals in the Baltic ports. Confirmation of the investment
comes as government forecasts reveal that total cargo turnover throughout
the country’s 66 ports will exceed 500m tonnes this year. The investments
in north western Russian ports - all within 150 km of the major gateway port
of St Petersburg - come despite an uncertain regulatory environment, cumbersome
customs requirements and underdeveloped rail and road infrastructure.
