Murmansk Sea Fishing Port to triple containerized crab exports to Asia in 2025

MURMANSK. March 17 (Interfax) - The Murmansk Sea Fishing Port (MMRP), which was nationalized in 2022, plans to expand multimodal shipments of frozen seafood exports that were launched in 2024, MMRP CEO Andrei Borodin said in an interview with Interfax.

The project is being carried out with fishing company Antey Group and railway shipper Dalreftrans. Frozen boiled crab is shipped from MMRP to Vladivostok in refrigerated containers and then by sea to the port of Busan in South Korea.

"This pilot project is important because until last year there was virtually no container handling at the fishing port and we are essentially developing this new cargo stream from scratch. Last year we handled 139 containers and this year we expect to approximately triple this cargo traffic," Borodin said.

MMRP and Dalreftrans are also working on bringing fishing companies and Chinese customers into this logistics chain, he said.

Antey Group previously announced it had started exporting live Kamchatka crab caught in the Barents Sea to China. The supply chain included shipment in special trucks from Murmansk to Moscow, then by air to Shanghai and Beijing. The group later said its vessels had worked out a route along the Northern Sea Route to ship live crab from the Barents Sea to Asia.