Acron told to divert dry freight from Estonia to Russian
ports
BC, Tallinn, 12.12.2016.
The Russian company Acron which owns terminals in the ports
of Muuga and Sillamae in Estonia has been instructed to divert dry freight from
its terminals in Estonia to Russian ports and is mulling the possibility to
build new port capacity in Russia, Acron's Board Chairman Alexander Popov told
Interfax, citing LETA/BNS.
"There is an instruction to reorient our dry freight
from Estonian ports to Russian ports. And we are now conducting negotiations
with different stevedores, railways, shore-side land owners. We are exploring
the issue in two areas: either to reorient a part of our freight to already
existing terminals to third parties or constructing our own port
capacity," Popov told Interfax in an interview.
It doesn't appear from the interview who issued the
instruction.
Popov said that the company has not yet determined in what
direction its fertilizers will be reoriented and is exploring various options,
including the Ust-Luga port, the ports of St. Petersburg and Murmansk.
Acron considers that the reorientation of freight to Russian
ports will not lead to a significant rise in the company's transport expenses.
"For us the situation is very unpleasant, but the
instruction was formed in a way to allow us to solve the strategic task of
reorienting all transit from the Baltic to Russian ports, but in such a way as
to not harm Acron's interests as a freighter and owner of existing terminals.
In other words, stevedores and Russian Railways need to provide us conditions
similar to those conditions which we had regarding transit and transshipment
through Estonia," he said.
Transshipments of ammonia will continue through Estonian
ports, Popov said.
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