Pevek (port)

The water area of ​​the seaport is protected from ice load from the open sea and storm wind by the relief of the coastal strip and the Bolshoi and Maly Routan islands, with strong southeastern wind gusts of up to 40 m / s and higher. At a wind speed of 15 m / s, the wind current reaches a speed of 1.5 knots. In the warm season, ice floes in the water area driven by northerly winds. The sea-level fluctuations in the sea are observed, reaching 2 meters during the water surge, and 1.4 meters above the average level when driving. On the coast, at the quays, variable currents are often noted ^[3] .

The founding date is considered April 20, 1951, when the Pevek Arctic Seaport Authority, which is part of the Dalstroy system, was organized. The creation of the port was facilitated by the discovery of rich gold deposits in the Chaunsky district of the Chukotka Peninsula and their further active development. The port consisted of one berth line, including four pile berths with a length of 429.5 meters, while it still had almost no mechanization, production and office space, and essentially did not meet its purpose. In total, at that time there were 3 caterpillar cranes, work was carried out by ship winches and manually, up to 900 people worked in the shift (mainly prisoners).

On October 25, 1957, by a decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Arctic port of Pevek became part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company of the Ministry of the Navy. In the same year, large-scale construction of hydraulic structures, production buildings and housing for port workers began.

In the 1960s here, for the first time in the Arctic, 4 tongue-and-groove berths with a hard concrete coating were built; the total length of the berth wall reached 499 meters. There were 14 gantry cranes; parking and repair garages were built.

In the 1970s and 80s, Pevek became the base port for the processing of transshipment cargo of the Kolyma direction, the flow of which was constantly growing every year. In 1982, the Pevek Commercial Sea Port was awarded the Order of Honor for the successes achieved in ensuring the transshipment of national cargo for the developing regions of Kolyma and Chukotka.

Since 1983, reinforced ice-class vessels of the Norilsk type began to arrive at the port.

In the 1990s, due to the liquidation of the main enterprises of the Chaun-Chukotka mining industry, a sharp drop in cargo turnover occurred, however, the enterprise was able to maintain the backbone of highly qualified personnel and continue to work.

In 1997, the Pevek seaport was transformed into an open joint stock company.

In 2006, a cargo section at Cape Schmidt entered the port.

In the near future, it is planned to reconstruct the Pevek seaport, where a transshipment base will be created for the export of fine coal from Yakutia to China with a capacity of up to 500 thousand tons per year. According to this project, in the spring of 2013, a 50-meter gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 40 tons was installed here ^[4] .

To ensure the reception of vessels with large draft, the mooring wall is supposed to be removed in order to increase mooring depths to 16-18 meters. It is also planned to deploy in the port a rescue unit of the Ministry of Emergencies , border and customs posts ^[5] .

The port is 99.99% owned by the Chukotka Territory-Invest LLC, which in turn is owned by the Cyprus offshore companies Tesina Trading & Investment Ltd. (99%) and Allport Investments Ltd. (1%) ^[6] .

The port is accessible to vessels for entering the port water area with a draft of up to 13 m; for approach to the berth - from 7.8 to 9.3 m (depending on the location). The maximum length of vessels processed at the sea terminal is 177.2 m, the maximum width is 24.55 m.

It is open for vessels to call during summer navigation from early July to late October. In favorable years, vessels may arrive without icebreaking support.

To assist transport vessels during their mooring (mooring, hauling) there is a tugboat. Port gantry cranes operate at wind speeds of up to 15 m / s. Processing of general cargo is carried out around the clock.

Travel time of vessels leaving Nakhodka is 14-16 days, from Murmansk - 10-12 days.

The port is a full member of the Association of Commercial Sea Ports - ASOP.

Production Infrastructure

The port has 4 berths and 1 auxiliary pier. The first berth is mainly used for coal unloading; the second and third berths handle general cargo and mineral construction materials. The fourth berth is used to drain oil products from tankers .

In the port water area there are five anchorage sites with depths of 15-30 meters. Anchorage No. 1 is intended for dry cargo vessels, No. 2 - for dry cargo vessels and icebreakers, No. 3 - for vessels with explosive cargoes and vessels with nuclear power plants, No. 4 - for tankers, No. 5 - for quarantine vessels ^[3] .

Cargo transshipment is carried out by twenty gantry cranes of various lifting capacities (from 10 to 40 tons), a new truck crane with a lifting capacity of 50 tons, as well as several crawler cranes with a lifting capacity of 25 tons. There are several port special haulage trucks with a carrying capacity of 37.5 tons, more than two dozen auto-loaders with a loading capacity of 1.5 to 7 tons, a large number of tractors and bulldozers and special handling equipment.

The commercial port has covered warehouses with an area of ​​about 2 thousand m², open storage areas with an area of ​​147 thousand m². ^[9]

By 2013, the port infrastructure was very worn out physically and mentally. The operation of the longest berth (186 m) has been officially banned since 1996, the second berth was partially in disrepair - only half of its length was 180 meters. The maximum length of the accepted vessel was limited to 134 meters ^[10] .

In 2016, the reconstruction of the first two berths began. Their work was not interrupted ^[11] . Subject to favorable weather conditions, work is expected to be completed in December 2017 ^[12] .

In 2017, the demolition of multi-storey buildings of the Kosa microdistrict began, on the site of which there will be additional areas of the port’s warehouse territory ^[13] .

• O. Chesnokov. Pevek is the northernmost port city in the world (Neopr.) . Parliamentary newspaper in the Far East (No. 14 (310), 2011). Date of treatment August 2, 2013. Archived September 1, 2013.
• Photo and video of the seaport (Russian) . maximov.pevek.ru . Date of treatment March 27, 2019.