The White Sea Port will be a new deep-water sea trading port with an annual 9 million tons cargo capacity.
The port will be created on the site of a former coal mooring and fish port, the regional administration reports. The new port will create more than 400 new workplaces, head of the White Sea Port Joint-Stock Company Andrey Kyachin says
The port will be capable of handling ships with up to 30 000 tons deadweight will open up for shorter distances between Northern Europe and the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Central Asia and China.
