Koltsovo Starts Construction of a New Cargo Village

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new cargo village took place earlier today at Ekaterinburg International Airport. The event was attended, among others, by Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Sverdlovsk Oblast Governor Alexander Misharin, and Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport General Director Evgeniy Chudnovskiy. About 17 000 square metres are due for completion within Phase One of the construction in December 2011; these are planned for the cargo terminal, offices of the airport’s Cargo Division, Koltsovo Customs and the Checkpoint Koltsovo-Ekaterinburg. Another 22 000 square metres of buildings and structures will be constructed in 2018–22. The investment volume of Phase 1 will amount to approx. 900 million rubles; Phase 2, 800 million rubles.

“Laying of the foundation stone represents more than the building of the new cargo complex of the airport; it stands for the next stage of Koltsovo’s large-scale reconstruction aimed at raising the service standards and cargo volumes to a higher level,” said Mr. Chudnovskiy. “The advantageous geographical position and the economic potential of the Sverdlovsk Oblast coupled with the infrastructure of a state-of-the-art air cargo facility will, according to experts, favorably affect the growth of goods flows in the region for the next 5–10 years, enhance the offered logistic services and contribute to further development of the Ural-Siberian region as a transport node”.

The new cargo village designed by Hochtief Airports from Germany is to occupy a site of 197 000 square metres. The total floor area will be 39 000 mІ and will include the cargo terminal (13 125 mІ), the customs office building (3 000 mІ), the border, veterinary, phytosanitary and sanitary-quarantine controls (700 mІ), the mail processing facility (2 250 mІ), the express freight handling centre (5 600 mІ), and offices and warehouses for forwarders (13 750 mІ).

A propos: Ekaterinburg Airport saw a record growth in cargo traffic in 2010, with freight and mail handling increasing by 68.9 percent and amounting to 22 945.5 tonnes. International shipments grew by 150 percent (10 218.9 t), the domestic cargo traffic went up by 34.8 percent (12 302.5 t), and CIS flights carried 21 percent more (424.1 t). In the cargo traffic, the airport works with several airlines, including AirBridgeCargo, one of the largest cargo carriers, which operates two flights a week on the Amsterdam (Maastricht) – Ekaterinburg – Hong Kong route with Boeing 747F planes, and another carrier, MNG Cargo flies twice a week Istanbul – Ekaterinburg – Almaty.

The new airport cargo ground handling terminal will function as a speedy transaction handling centre, where storage is minimized and the processing speed is maximized. The implementation of the modern cargo infrastructure will enable an increase of the Koltsovo cargo traffic, which by 2030 will amount to 79 400 tonnes, more than three times the figure of the year 2010.

To watch the video about the new Koltsovo Cargo Village, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XH-xE6OsO4

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