On September 11 the large state of the art coal terminal VaninoTransUgol was put into operation 8 km off the port of Vanino in Khabarovsk Kray in the Russian Far East.
At this stage, the terminal capacity is 12 mn tons per annum to be expanded up to 24 mn tons per annum in 2023. The project investor, the coal mining company Kolmar, has invested 29.4 bn rubles ($393 mn) out of the budgeted 49 bn rubles ($654 mn).
The terminal will deploy environmentally friendly coal handling technology and specialized equipment to protect the regional ecology from coal dust.