The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east. The strait is 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) to 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) wide and up to 18 metres (59 ft) deep. The most important harbor, the Crimean city of Kerch, gives its name to the strait, formerly known as the Cimmerian Bosporus. It has also been called the Straits of Yenikale after the Yeni-Kale fortress in Kerch.
Port Kavkaz is a small harbour on the Kerch Strait in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The port is able to handle vessels up to 130 metres (430 ft) in length, 14.5 metres (48 ft) in breadth and with draft up to 5 metres (16 ft).
The Port of Mariupol or Mariupol Sea Port is located in Mariupol, Ukraine in the Taganrog Bay, Sea of Azov. The port is governed by the port authority managed by Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. As of June 2022, it is occupied by Russian armed forces.
Azov Shipyard is the largest ship repair enterprise in the Sea of Azov (Ukraine) specializing in ship repair, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering and cargo transshipment. Azov Shipyard is being managed by Management Company Mariupol Investment Group . Dmitriy Lyashov is the General Director of Azov Shipyard. The shipyard was formerly known as Zhdanov Shipyard. The shipyard has since privatized and is known as Azov ship-repair factory enterprise and is subordinate to System Capital Management.
The Port of Odesa or Odesa Sea Port, located near Odesa, is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes, the only port of Ukraine capable of accepting Panamax class vessels. The port has an immediate access to railways allowing quick transfer of cargo from sea routes to ground transportation. Along with its younger satellite ports of Chornomorsk (1958) and Yuzhne (1973), the Port of Odesa is a major freight and passenger transportation hub of Ukraine.
The Great Port of St. Petersburg or Port of St. Petersburg is a major seaport serving the city of St. Petersburg in northwest Russia. The port's water area is 164.6 km2. The mooring line is 31 km long and the water is 25 metres (82 ft) deep at the port's deepest anchorages. Since 2011, the port has been under the authority of a state-owned enterprise, the Port Authority of the Great Port of St. Petersburg. This agency oversees commercial navigation in the seaport of St. Petersburg and beyond in the designated areas of responsibility of the Russian Federation.
Novorossiysk Sea Port is one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin and the largest in Krasnodar Krai. At 8.3 km, the NSP berthing line is the longest among all the ports of Russia. The port is located on the Northeast coast of the Black Sea, in the Tsemes Bay. The bay is ice-free and open for navigation all year round. However, in winter the navigation occasionally stops due to the hazardous northeastern bora wind. The Tsemes Bay allows deep-draft vessels up to 19 m DWT, the inner harbour — up to 12.5 m. The liquid bulk terminals depth range from 8.4 to 15.6 m, suitable for tankers with a deadweight of up to 250,000 tons, like Suezmax-class vessels.
Port of Zarubino is a sea port situated in Zarubino on the south of Primorsky Krai in the Trinity Bay, northwestern part of the Sea of Japan. The port is 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the border with China and close to the border with North Korea. A railway line from the port connects to railway lines running north to Vladivostok, west to Hunchun of Jilin Province in China where a high speed rail terminus is operational, and south to Rajin in North Korea via Khasan, respectively. It is ice-free year round.
Port of Kherson is a port in the city of Kherson, Ukraine. It is located in the delta of Dnieper river.
The Port of Magadan is a maritime port in the city of Magadan, Magadan Oblast, Russia, located in the Nagaev Bay on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. The port has 13 berths, of which 3 are for oil products, container 2, and 8 for other goods.
The Port of Rostov-on-Don is a major sea and river port, and one of the oldest in Russia. The port has 56 berths and a berth wall length of over 9000 m. The carrying capacity of its cargo terminals is around 18 million tons per year, which puts it in the top 15 largest Russian sea ports. The total number of stevedores is 24. Structurally, it consists of port facilities belonging to JSC "Rostov port", LLC "Rostov universal port" (RUP) and other companies.
Port Management Company is the Russian stevedore company fulfilling the powers of the sole executive body of the specialized coal sea ports of Russia located in the Far East and in the Baltic Sea region.
TransInvestService (TIS) is a large Ukrainian private terminal operator and stevedore operating in the Pivdennyi Port. In 2018, the company's cargo turnover reached 25.7 million tons. TIS operates its own cargo terminals in Small Adzhalyk Estuary, which is in the Pivdennyi Port water area 22 km north-east of Odesa. TIS Group owns five modern terminals: TIS Grain, TIS Mineral Fertilizers, TIS Ore, TIS Coal and TIS Container Terminal. TransInvestService owns and manages all service infrastructure facilities, including an in-house railway station.
"Bagerovo–Vyshesteblyevskaya" is a railway branch opened in 2019, which connects the Crimean Bridge into the rail networks at either end and replaced the train ferry between Kerch and Port Kavkaz. It is part of the Moscow–Crimea Main Line railway route. The construction of the branch line provides railway transit to the ports of the Crimea and the creation of a dry cargo area of the port of Taman. In combination with other enhancements, it is planned to allow reducing the time for the movement of passenger trains from Moscow to Simferopol from 2 days to 18 hours. A further branch, to the cargo yard in the area of the future Portovaya station at the Port of Taman, was put into operation in April 2016. This made it possible to bring the unloading station for delivery of construction materials 32 km closer to the construction of the Crimean Bridge. The entire line was put into temporary use in June 2019, and into permanent use in December 2019. The first regular passenger train passed on December 25, 2019.
"Delo" Group of Companies is the most extensive transport and logistics holding in Russia. It operates maritime container and deep-water grain terminals in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins. Additionally, it has a network of railway container terminals and a fleet of containers and well cars. The leading company of the Group is LLC "UK Delo."
DeloPorts is a Russian stevedoring holding that consolidates the assets of Delo Group at the Novorossiysk Sea Port, comprising NUTEP container terminal, KSK grain terminal and Delo service company and towing operator. The primary beneficiary of DeloPorts is Russian businessman Sergey Shishkarev.
NUTEP container terminal is a container terminal at the Novorossiysk Sea Port for ro/ro, container and general cargo. It was built in 2002—2004 as a subsidiary of Russian stevedoring holding DeloPorts.
KSK grain terminal is a container terminal of Novorossiysk Sea Port for grain, ro/ro and general cargo. It was launched in 2006 as a subsidiary of Russian stevedoring holding DeloPorts.
Port of Korsakov is a Russian seaport on Sakhalin Island on the shores of Aniva Bay. It is located in the city of Korsakov, Sakhalin Oblast.
Novotrans Group of Companies is a Russian transportation holding involved in railway cargo operations, carriage maintenance, infrastructure projects, stevedoring, seaport operations. This is one of the largest private operators of rolling stock in Russian Federation and CIS countries with main focus on transportation of coal, gravel, timber, steel products and construction cargo. The holding comprises 24 companies in various regions of Russia and CIS. It is headed by the President Konstantin Goncharov.
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