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Vanino

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Vanino 

an urban-type settlement in Sovetskaia Gavan’ Raion, Khabarovsk Krai, RSFSR. The settlement has a port in Vanino Bay of the Tatar Strait and a railroad station on the Komsomol’sk-na-Amure-Sovetskaia Gavan’ line. Population, 16,000 (1968). Vanino has a lumber industrial combine, and a ferry crossing between it and Sakhalin Island.

The Vanino commercial seaport was established in 1944, and it operates all year round thanks to the icebreakers that take the freighters through. Vanino is an important point for shipping cargo and passengers to Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and the coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk.



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Mechel to build coal terminal in Vanino port by 2014.
Delivery cost from Vanino to Shanghai is only USD$15/ tonne.
Recent Highlights -- In September 2008, Mechel announced the launch of construction of a specialized coal transshipment complex at Vanino Port (Vanino SCTC).
 
 
 
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