Ust-Luga (russian: Усть-Луга, lit. ''mouth of the Luga'',
Votian: ''Laugasuu'', lit. ''mouth of the Luga'', fi, Laukaansuu) is a
settlement
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and
railway station
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in
Kingiseppsky District
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of
Leningrad Oblast
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,
Russia
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, near the Estonian border, situated on the
Luga River near its entry into the
Luga Bay of the
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and ...
, about west of
St. Petersburg.
Port facilities
Ust-Luga is the site of an important coal and fertiliser terminal, constructed at a cost of $2.1 billion. Construction works started in 1997, in part to avoid dry cargo shipments through the
Baltic States
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, and were accelerated at the urging of
President
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Vladimir Putin
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, who inaugurated the new port facilities in 2001. The 3,700-metre approach canal is deep and capable of accommodating ships with a capacity of 150,000 tonnes and more. In May 2008, Putin confirmed that Ust-Luga will be the final point of the projected
Second Baltic Pipeline, an oil transportation route bypassing
Belarus
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.
The Ust-Luga container terminal was launched in December 2011. It is operated by the
National Container Company
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.
In 2018, the port handled 98.7 million tonnes of cargo.
In October 2021,
Gazprom
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and
RusGazDobycha announced they would build a plant to process
ethane
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-containing natural gas and a large-scale
liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
(LNG) production plant,
Baltic LNG
Baltic LNG is a liquefied natural gas plant under construction on the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The plant's capacity would be 13 million tons of LNG per year. The planned launch date has changed many ...
, with a capacity of 13 million tons of LNG per year.
High-ethane gas from the
Tambeyskoye gas field and the Achimov and Valanginian deposits of the Nadym-Pur-Taz region will supply the plant.
Population
As of 2005, the population of Ust-Luga does not exceed 2,000, but the port administration expects it to grow to 34,000 by 2025.
[Балтийское информационное агентство]
Население нового города Усть-Луга в 2025 году составит 34,5 тысяч человек
See also
*
Ust-Luga Multimodal Complex
Ust-Luga Multimodal Complex (russian: Мультимодальный комплекс Усть-Луга, ''Multimodalnyi kompleks Ust-Luga'') is a project aimed at development of the portside area of about 3000 hectares located on the Soikinsky ...
References
External links
Ust-Luga Sea Port
Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast
Port cities and towns in Russia
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