Vitino () is an oil port on the

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. It is located near Beloye More railway station, 28 kilometers by road south of

Kandalaksha Kandalaksha () is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kandalaksha Gulf on the White Sea, north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 40,564 ( 2002 Census); Etymology According to the most common ...

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, on the western shore of

Kandalaksha Gulf The Kandalaksha Gulf (, , ) is located in the Republic of Karelia, and Murmansk Oblast in northwestern Russia. Forming the north-western corner of the White Sea, it is one of four large bays and gulfs of this sea, the others being the Onega Bay ( ...

. The port started operations in 1995, and since 2001 has been operating year-round. Its principal activity is transfer of oil and oil products arriving by rail from Russia's

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to seagoing

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for export. In 2004, 3.7 million tons of oil and oil products were handled by the port. Its full capacity at the time was 8 million tons a year.Microsoft Word - Rep-Svanhovd_rus.doc
/ref> The port can handle seagoing tankers with displacement up to 40,000 and with the dimensions up to: * Length: 230 m, * Beam – 32 m, * Draft – 10.9 m. There are also two piers for handling smaller sea-and-river going boats.

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Port of Vitino
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