Severstal prefers Murmansk to Petersburg
Russian steel major Severstal starts to ship exports through Murmansk instead of Sankt Petersburg.
The company, Russia’s biggest steel producer, is about to start to send its export production through the port of Murmansk instead of Sankt Petersburg. The reason for the reorientation is “the complicated situation” in the Bay of Finland, the Murmansk port informs.
Over the last years, shipping in the Bay of Finland has boomed following the development of new terminal facilities. As previously reported, the situation in the bay has this winter been highly difficult because of the major amounts of ice in the area.
The Port of Murmansk expects to ship 25,000 tons of Severstal’s production, MBnews.ru reports. The steel manufactorer is likely to resume exports through Sankt Petersburg when the local ice conditions improve.
Severstal has major industrial facilities in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast. It also has company plants in Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, and in Kostomuksha, Republic of Karelia.
