News / Moscow greenlights the building of a new deepwater Baltic port

Source Port of Primorsk

Primorsk, Russia’s major Baltic oil port and the end-point of its Baltic Pipeline System, is on the verge of seeing construction start that will transform the port into a multi-purpose facility for up to 3m teu annually.

Dubbed Primorsk Universal Port Complex (PUPC), it will be built on a 760ha plot, some 1.5km southeast of the existing oil harbour. The new port will have several dedicated terminals, including a container-handling facility with an annual capacity of 2m teu initially, rising to ...