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Heavy lift extension
The Port of HaminaKotka Ltd and Belgium-based Sarens Group NV have extended their cooperation agreement regarding movements of very heavy and large modules through the Finnish port.
The original agreement, signed in August 2016, was worth €20M, and has now been extended to 2021. The port will invest around €3M to adapt the infrastructure at quay PK3 at its Hamina site. The new agreement is worth €46M, according to Kimmo Naski, the port’s CEO. Some 150 Sarens experts are based in the port.
The project involves receiving, storage and onward transport of pressurised modules measuring 70m x 16m x 11m, and weighing 1,500-1,800t. The first two modules arrived on Cosco’s KanG shenG KOU.
Special-purpose Blue Water Shipping barges are sailed from the port and through the Russian inland waterway system into the Caspian Sea for the final destination in Kazakhstan, a journey of 5,000 km. There are 17 river barges representing an investment of US$400M.
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