Russian govt shifts deadline for Kolmar coal terminal project at Vanino port to 2030
KHABAROVSK. Feb 6 (Interfax) - The Russian government has made amendments to the list of investment projects planned for implementation in the Far East, delaying the expansion of the coal terminal at the Vanino port on the shore of Muchke Bay in Khabarovsk Territory from 2025 to 2030.
The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on February 4. It has been published on the official portal for publishing legal acts.
The latest version of the list states that the project will be carried out by JSC Vaninotransugol (part of the Kolmar Group) and the Sakha (Yakutsk) Transport Company LLC. It involves exporting coal through a transport and transshipment complex with an annual handling capacity of 12 million tonnes in the first phase (this part of the project has already been completed) and 24 million tonnes in the second phase.
It was previously reported that Vaninotransugol was not able to complete the coal terminal expansion project at the Vanino port due to limited throughput capacity on the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). The company transshipped only 3.967 million tonnes of coal in H1 2024, down 34.8% year-on-year, according to data from Morcenter-TEK. The region's governor, Dmitry Demeshin, informed the prime minister about the issues with the project in July 2024.
Vaninotransugol handles coal transshipment from the Kolmar Group's Denisovsk and Inaglinsk mining and processing complexes in Yakutia. The coal is intended for export to the Asia-Pacific region. The first phase of the terminal, with a capacity of 12 million tonnes, was commissioned in September 2020. The loading complex was built from scratch 8 kilometers from the town of Vanino in Muchke Bay. The total cost of the project is 42.7 billion rubles.
The Kolmar group of companies is a Russian holding that includes coal mining enterprises and trading and logistics companies, forming a unified cycle of coal extraction, enrichment and shipment of coking and energy coal from the Neryungri district of Yakutia.
