Saint-Petersburg is the largest industrial and transport center, the marine capital of Russia. The port of Saint-Petersburg is the European gateway of the country, the most important transport link between the East and the West.
Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg
Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg located on the islands at the mouth of the River Neva, east of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The port can be accessed all year round. The port seaways are iced over from November-December till March, depending on weather conditions, but are kept open by ice-breakers. The so-called “Large port of St. Petersburg” includes mooring facilities at the former Sea Trade Port, Forest, Fish and River port, oil terminal, First Container Terminal, sea passenger terminal, river passenger port, facilities at Kronshtadt and Lomonosov, as well as port points in Gorskaya and Bronka. It also contains a number of shipbuilding and ship repair plants including Admiralty Shipyards, Baltiysky Zavod, Severnay Verf, Kanonersky ship repairing factory and others.
The ports are connected to the sea by an extended network of channels and fairways, the longest of which is the 27 km St. Petersburg Sea Channel, which starts in the Sea Trade Port area and finishes behind Kotlin Island, where Kronshtadt city is located. The channel can take ships with a depth of 11 meters, 260 m long and 40 m wide. Larger ships, especially oil tankers, are served on the outside sea roads.
Marine Passenger Terminal “Marine Facade”
There are two terminals and five berths in operation at the new specialized Passenger Port of St. Petersburg now. A ferry terminal has been completed and commissioned too.
Inland water transport
Inland water transport has great importance for the region as the water systems of the Neva and Ladoga are navigable for long distances. Through the system of the Svir river and Onezhskoe Lake there is water access to Kareliya and through the Belomoro-Baltic canal to the White Sea. Another waterway, Volgo-Baltic, makes it possible to link the city with the North of Europe, Central Russia, the Volgo-Vyatsky region, the Urals, Povolzhje and Caspian Sea ports. The Volgo-Donsky canal links the city with the North Caucasus, Priazovje and the sea ports of the Black Sea.
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