KYIV. Dec 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Transgrainterminal LLC, part of Kernel Group, seeks to finish building a grain terminal at the Chornomorsk maritime merchandise port by late 2018.
The press service of the port’s administration reported on Tuesday that the company signed a long-term agreement to lease rearward areas of berths 14 and 15 and upper rearward areas of the Chornomorsk port state-run enterprise. The total area where the facilities will be built is 53,000 square meters. Ships will be loaded at berths 14 and 15.
The grain terminal projects includes a on-the-floor grain storage warehouse with a capacity of 140,000 tonnes with two underground and one upper galleries, the grain receiving line for railway transport, a complex of galleries, tracks and weighs, metal silos for storing grain with a capacity of 170,000 tonnes.
Today the key port asset of Kernel is Transbulkterminal grain terminal. Its annual capacity is 4 million tonnes. The terminal has silos with a storage capacity of around 190,000 tonnes of grain.
