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Russia plans to export coal mined from the deep in the heart of Siberia via the Yenisei River and Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR) to the demand-growing Asia market, with the initial shipment expected as early as this summer, media reported.
The country's Ministry of Transport has been blueprinting the plan to use the ports of Krasnoyarsk and Lesosibirsk and then transport the fuel via the Yenisei River and NSR to Asian countries, according to High North News.
Yenisei River is the central one of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean. The NSR, especially the Northeast Passage, is a shipping lane officially defined by Russian legislation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from Murmansk on the Barents Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait and Far East.
The cost of transporting coal along the Yenisei River through the NSR satisfies the logistics requirements of coal companies, said Yury Trutnev, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, citing preliminary assessment.
According to the logistics plan, coal could be sent from the river ports of Krasnoyarsk and Lesosibirsk along the Yenisei River to the Arctic sea port of Dudinka, and then transshipped onto ocean-going cargo vessels and through the NSR to Asia, High North News reported.
The expansion of the capabilities of the NSR was essential for solving national problems for the development of Siberia, the Arctic, and the Far East, Russian President Putin stated when he spoke to the Federal Assembly.
It was reported that another Arctic project which plans to export millions tonnes of coal from the Taimyr peninsula to Asian market including China and India was affected by western sanctions in 2022. But the owner of the plan – Severnaya Zvezda company – aims to start delivery of high-quality PCI coal to China in 2023.
Russia has been shifting its coal exports from some western countries to Asian market due to EU's sanctions amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflicts, but its exports to the potential market are restrained due to its undeveloped transportation infrastructures.
(Writing by Emma Yang Editing by Harry Huo)
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