Vostochny Port (russian: Восто́чный порт) is an intermodal

container port A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example train ...

at the eastern end of the

Trans-Siberian Railway The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the ea ...

. It is the largest

port A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as H ...

in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

. It is located in

Vrangel Vrangel (russian: Вра́нгель) was an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on east coast of Nakhodka Bay. Its foundation date is unknown.''Administrative-Te ...

(an eastern suburb of

Nakhodka Nakhodka ( rus, Нахо́дка, p=nɐˈxotkə) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. Po ...

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

. A deepwater port on

Nakhodka Bay Nakhodka Bay or Nakhodka Gulf () is a bay of the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan, on which is sited the port of Nakhodka. It is part of the Primorsky Krai of Russia. The Lisy Island protects the bay from open sea waves. Literally the ...

(part of the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, i ...

), it operates year-round and is suitable for handling large tonnage ships. Vostochny is a warm-water port in the Russian Far East. The largest

stevedoring firm A stevedore (), also called a longshoreman, a docker or a dockworker, is a Dock (maritime), waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships, trucks, rail transport, trains or air transport, airplanes. After the Intermoda ...

in the port is JSC Vostochny Port, which specializes in coal handling with conveyor equipment. Vostochny Port also consists of VostCo Dry Dock, which was the construction site of the concrete gravity base structures LUN-A and PA-B for the development of the Sakhalin Island offshore oil fields. 31 way out tow

Another division of Vostochny port is the Special Sea Oil Terminal which is located in

Kozmino Kozmino (russian: Козьмино) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: Modern inhabited localities * Kozmino, Kotlassky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, a village in Koryazhemsky Selsoviet of Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast ...

Bay, with cargo throughput of almost 15 million tonnes.

References

External links

Official Vostochny Port website
�� Nakhodka Buildings and structures in Primorsky Krai Ports and harbours of the Russian Pacific Coast Sea of Japan Transport in Primorsky Krai {{Port-stub