Paragraph 3. Russian opportunities

In our country is considered a lot of opportunities to create port logistics hubs, for example, in the Barents Sea, in Sevastopol, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, etc. Also there was a project to create a Russian-port hub in the Baltic Sea, namely in the Kaliningrad region, but in 2014 the project was abandoned in favor of the port of Sabetta in the "Yamal LNG" program, and private investors was not found for this project. As for St. Petersburg, shallow depth limits the reception of modern ships, but currently under development Bronka- outer harbor of St. Petersburg-based on work with container and Ro-Ro cargo, as well as conducted dredging. Also an embodiment of the formation of hubs ports in Russia is to cooperate with international companies.

"Yamal LNG" project - the largest project of the LNG production on Yamal, organized by Russian independent gas producer - OJSC "NOVATEK". The project envisages the construction of a liquefied natural gas manufactory (LNG) with capacity of 16.5 million tons per year in the resource base of the South Tambeyskoye field. Due to its unique location it is possible to create a flexible competitive logistic model, which provides year-round supply of LNG to markets in Europe and North America, with the possibility of transhipment cargo, as well as the direct supplies to the Asia-Pacific region through the Northern Sea Route.

In the Luga Bay of the Gulf of JSC "Ust-Luga Company" in addition to the development of the port has been integrated socio-economic development of the territory adjacent to the port. Port of Ust-Luga is located on the border of the Russian Federation and the European Union. Due to its location it can perfectly serve as a port hub, playing an important role in the organization of the transit of goods within the European transport infrastructure. Ust-Luga port is constructed as a universal port. Terminals and specialized zones for different purposes will have services for handling and further processing of more than 20 categories of goods. Through the use of modern technologies and equipment, terminals will be able to withstand the competitive terms of service. Also, the Ust-Luga port is selected as the site for the construction of an LNG plant in the framework of "Baltic LNG" project and will be able to perform due to its location the role of a transit port. As the target markets consider Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, India and Latin America

Paragraph 4. Examples of hubs

Gdansk

An example of a port-hub can act DCT-Gdansk Port (Poland). As a result of the transformation of the port hub in 2004, the proportion of transshipment of goods amounted to 5%, but in 2012 already 60.3%, and the turnover of goods in containers increased by 20 times. Also large main hubs for maritime transport in Europe and the European part of Russia are Hamburg and Rotterdam. The average time for processing and handling of the container in which of these ports, 7 days, and then is carried by feeder operators further delivery to the ports.

Rotterdam

The Port-hub of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 1962 until 2004 it was the world's busiest port, now overtaken first by Singapore and then Shanghai. In 2011, Rotterdam was the world's eleventh-largest container port in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) handled. In 2012 Rotterdam was the world's sixth-largest port in terms of annual cargo tonnage.

The total turnover of marine cargo in the port of Rotterdam is 257 million tons, the traffic flow - more than 30 thousand of sea and 250 thousand of river vessels per year. The port is equipped with modern machinery for loading and unloading of goods, has warehouses, open cargo area, storage tanks, total capacity of which reaches 27 million tons. The port has 5 oilbays with 68 berths, 14 of which receive tankers with capacity of upper then 280 tons. It is envisaged in the future receive tankers with carrying capacity of 400 to 500 thousand tons. 8 dockyards Rotterdam port has 8 dry and 25 floating docks, the largest of which has dimensions of 405 X 90 X 10.85 m, provide construction and repair of ships carrying capacity up to 500 thousands meters and ships to aircraft carriers, inclusive. In the port of Rotterdam based Navy ships and parts of the Netherlands Marine Corps, and Navy ships of other NATO countries.

Rotterdam consists of five distinct port areas and three distribution parks that meet the needs of 40,000,000 consumers.

Singapore

Length of berthing front naval base for more than 3 km with a depth of up to 14 m. In freight turnover port of Singapore is one of the largest ports in the world. At the same time the port can take more than 25 ships with carrying capacity from 6 to 35 tonnes.; daily throughput capacity of the port at the quay walls - 5 dry cargo lifting capacity of 6 tons and 4 tankers.. Extensive parking raid, safely sheltered from the wind and surf. Blakang-Matti can take daily to 100 vessels. The total turnover of marine cargo port of Singapore is 112 million metres. Berthing front length of more than 7 km with a depth of 13.4 m.

The port has a container terminal for container handling, storage and bunkering points. Oilbay with 17 berths, located near Bukum, are able to receive tankers with a draft of 11-14 m, and single-point mooring raid - tankers with capacity up to 200 tons Tecon is the largest in Southeast Asia and one of the storage unit 4 refineries in Singapore.

Hamburg

Around 10,000 ship calls per year, almost 300 berths along a total of 43 kilometers of quay walls for seagoing vessels, more than 1,100 freight trains per week, four state-of-the-art container terminals and around 50 facilities specialized in handling project shipments and bulk cargos, along with about 7,300 logistics firms within the city limits - these are just a few of the factors making the Port of Hamburg one of the world's most flexible, high-performance universal ports. Last year 137.8 million tons of cargo crossed the quay walls of Germany's largest seaport. That included around 8.8 million standard containers (TEU). Hamburg is accordingly the third largest container port in Europe and in the 18th place on the list of the world's largest container ports.

New-York

New York is the largest US port in the mouth of the Hudson River on the Atlantic coast. The main dry cargo berths are at the top bay (Upper Bay), at. Hudson Strait and the East River. The depth of the approach channels to 9,1-13,7 m, harbors 7,6-13,7 m Port of New York includes a swimming pool and harbor areas, over 1,100 piers and jetties. Berth length of about 121.5 km with depths up to 14 meters. In the port of New York import following maritime cargo: oil and oil products, general cargo, iron and copper ore, timber, rubber; exported - cars, machinery, manufactured goods, food.

The total turnover of marine cargo in the port of New York is 57.1 million tons, the traffic flow -more than 50 ships in the night, passenger traffic - more than 1 million people per year.. Loading and unloading of sea cargo performed by a 1200 onshore and floating cranes. There are two container terminals (ports of Newark and Elizabeth) for receiving the container and container handling, 40 berths for tankers, warehouses, freight platforms, oil storage tanks. Dockyards Port Authority of New York with 9 dry and 10 floating docks provide any repairs of ships. The port can be used for temporary basing and repair of warships of all classes.