On February 1, 2022, due to sanctions, "Lithuanian Railways" terminated its contract with "Belaruskali" for transporting 12 million tons of fertilizers annually to the Port of Klaipeda. For this, the construction of a terminal at the Port of Bronka was proposed. IEDT conducted the necessary calculations, as reported by Tatiana Kulakova, Director of the Transport Economics Center at the Higher School of Economics, in an interview with vgudok.com.

“The situation has changed now. Fertilizers have left the Port of Saint Petersburg, and there is information about the launch of a project for constructing a multimodal port in the Murmansk region for handling Belarusian cargo (including fertilizers).

RZD will only be able to implement the project in Saint Petersburg if Belarus signs an investment agreement or provides guarantees on shipment volumes.

Belarus had long considered many sites (Primorsk, Saint Petersburg, Murmansk).

This route is in use (China and North Africa). There is a freight line to Kaliningrad from the Port of Bronka. The Port of Saint Petersburg is turning into a raw material export port (its specialization is changing; previously it was a container port oriented toward imports),” concluded Kulakova.

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