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Thu, 03/03/2011 - 14:13
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Unrest in Mid-East makes Japan look for new ways of cargo shipping
VLADIVOSTOK, March 3 (Itar-Tass) - Japan mulls over a chance of using the Trans-Siberian Trunk Railway as an alternative route of shipping cargoes to European Russia.
For this purpose, a delegation of the Japanese Association for Trade with Russia and New Independent Countries (ROTOBO), led by specialist of the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia Hisako Tsuji, visited Nakhodka, the largest in freight turnover port on the Russian Pacific coast.
The aim of the visit was to study possibilities for investing in the development of infrastructure of the Nakhodka seaports and their further use for goods deliveries from Japan to central Russia.
The press service of the Nakhodka administration reported on Thursday that the guests said at a meeting with Deputy Mayor Oleg Serganov that the Japanese side examines a possibility of more active use of the Trans-Siberian Trunk Railway for deliveries of goods in containers from Nakhodka ports to central Russia.
The ROTOBO Association thoroughly examines all particulars of such a project which could be an alternative to the freight flow from Japan via the Suez Canal. "The disquieting situation in Middle East countries makes Japan change the established export routes. In this connection, the Nakhodka ports play a key role for us," Hisako emphasised.
Serganov told ROTOBO representatives that 30 percent of crude,
exported from Russia to Japan, was shipped from the Kozmino oil port in 20I0. When the second stage is put into operation, the figure will jump up several times. The aggregate freight turnover of all Nakhodka ports topped 50 million tonnes in 2010.
The ROTOBO delegation visited the city of Vostochny, the Nakhodka
fishing and the Nakhodka merchant ports as well as met executives of these enterprises. The ROTOBO delegation will determine a possibility of investing in the development of infrastructure of Nakhodka ports after its return to Japan.
For this purpose, a delegation of the Japanese Association for Trade with Russia and New Independent Countries (ROTOBO), led by specialist of the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia Hisako Tsuji, visited Nakhodka, the largest in freight turnover port on the Russian Pacific coast.
The aim of the visit was to study possibilities for investing in the development of infrastructure of the Nakhodka seaports and their further use for goods deliveries from Japan to central Russia.
The press service of the Nakhodka administration reported on Thursday that the guests said at a meeting with Deputy Mayor Oleg Serganov that the Japanese side examines a possibility of more active use of the Trans-Siberian Trunk Railway for deliveries of goods in containers from Nakhodka ports to central Russia.
The ROTOBO Association thoroughly examines all particulars of such a project which could be an alternative to the freight flow from Japan via the Suez Canal. "The disquieting situation in Middle East countries makes Japan change the established export routes. In this connection, the Nakhodka ports play a key role for us," Hisako emphasised.
Serganov told ROTOBO representatives that 30 percent of crude,
exported from Russia to Japan, was shipped from the Kozmino oil port in 20I0. When the second stage is put into operation, the figure will jump up several times. The aggregate freight turnover of all Nakhodka ports topped 50 million tonnes in 2010.
The ROTOBO delegation visited the city of Vostochny, the Nakhodka
fishing and the Nakhodka merchant ports as well as met executives of these enterprises. The ROTOBO delegation will determine a possibility of investing in the development of infrastructure of Nakhodka ports after its return to Japan.
