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The seaport
Vitino was created as a result of a project on construction of a new port
terminal complex to provide services for large-capacity tankers while employing
the capacities of the White Sea Oil Centre (Belomorskaja Neftebaza), located on
the southwest coast of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea. The project was
financed from non-budgetary sources.
The
Port specializes in storage and transference (transhipment) of such petroleum
as black oil (May - October) and gas condensate (stabilized). In the White Sea
region it is the only port transhipping crude petroleum. Beginning from
navigation of 2002 the all-the-year-round transhipment of black oil and heavy
petroleum is planned. The Port has communications with the central part of
Russia as well as with the Black, Caspian, Azov and Baltic Seas by both external
and internal waterways.On the water area of the seaport Vitino there are four
berths, one of which is deep-water and designed for reception of sea tankers,
and three berths are for reception of such vessels as ore-oil carriers. One of
the berths is used for the Port fleet. The harbour approach is provided with the navigable channel 18 miles long with
depths not less than 12.5 meters from LAT (Lowest Astronomical Tide) and the
height of tide up to 3 meters. The channel is equipped with five pairs of shore
ranges and one navigational mark of circular view. The floating marks, that are
38 beacons, buoy navigational hazards and edges of the channel. The depths in
the channel, and also in the water area of the Port, are maintained by means of
regular complex hydrographic surveys.
The Port complex as a whole meets all modern requirements stipulated in
respect to trade ports. The second turn of development includes construction of
a deep-water berth, expansion of tankage and enhancement of the Port
infrastructure. As a result of the second turn the freight turnover of the Port
can increase up to 6 million tons per a year. Until navigation of 2000 the work
of the Port had been of a seasonal nature, and since 2001 the Port has been
receiving vessels all the year round.
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