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New transhipment facility for liquid cargos commissioned near Nikolaev
A Ukrainian foodstuff transportation company has completed construction of export/import terminal for transhipment of a wide range of vegetable oils, fats and stearines, SeaNews agency has informed. The facility is located in Dnepro-Bugsky seaport, near Nikolaev.
The funds for the construction were provided by Ukrainian and American private investors. The rated capacity of the facility is 250,000 tonnes of liquid cargos per year, with 35 cubic metres of one-time storage with heating.
The terminal includes a reverse filling/emptying system, a railway trestle with sidings for 12 railtanks, a car and truck weigher and a laboratory complex. The speed of loading is 250 tonnes per hour; the volume of a ship cargo is 10,000 to 12,000 tonnes.
The facility is planned to be used for exports of sunflower and rape oils and imports of palm, palm-kernel, coconut, olive oils and palm stearin.
The owners of the terminal are planning its further development into a large port facility for transhipment of a wide range of liquid cargos (including alcohol, liquid fertilisers and others), and organisation of industrial processing and packaging of vegetable oils and other liquid loads.