OOO (Limited Liability Company) “Severo-Zapadniy Holding” located in Podporozhskiy District of St.Petersburg Region with the annual production capacity of 50 thousand tons of wood pellets will make an experimental attempt to ship biofuel from a river port.
The main idea of the project is to arrange shipping the pellets not from the seaport of St. Petersburg, but with river-sea navigation vessels directly from Podporozh’e to Europe
This will reduce transport expences by cutting the cost of delivering the pellets from the distant area in the St. Petersburg region to the center of St.Petersburg where the sea terminal is situated. Besides, the stevedore services are cheaper in a regional port than in the city.
However the trashipment in a river port is not a routine practice yet, so the embarcation of biofuel on the ship is a subject of worry. In the sea terminal of St. Petersburgh to which SZP has been sending the pellets so far, the biofuel transhipment is already a well-proven technology with certain parameters of embarkation. As to river port – they promise to tranship 800 tons of biofuel a day.
Метки: biofuel, wood pellets
