Port of Nakhodka

Port of Nakhodka
View of a section of the port.
Interactive map of Port of Nakhodka
Port of Nakhodka
Location in Russia Primorsky Krai
Native name
Порт Нахо́дка
Location
CountryRussia
LocationNakhodka, Primorsky Krai
Coordinates42°47′00″N 132°52′00″E / 42.783333°N 132.866667°E / 42.783333; 132.866667
Details
Owned byRosmorport
Type of harbourCommercial port
Size of harbour127.45 square kilometres (49.21 sq mi)
Land area284.24 hectares (702.4 acres)
No. of wharfs120 metres (390 ft)[1]
Draft depth13 metres (43 ft)[1]
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage26.8 million tons (2020)[2]
Website
www.nmtport.ru

The Port of Nakhodka (Russian: Порт Нахо́дка, Port Nakhodka) is a Russian seaport of federal importance located in Nakhodka Bay, on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan. It forms part of one of Russia's largest transport hubs on the Pacific Ocean, together with the Vostochny Port. In 2020, the port's total cargo volume reached 26.8 million tons. It is situated in the city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, in the Russian Far East.[3]

The port complex includes maritime and oil terminals within Nakhodka Bay, as well as fishing terminals in the bays of Andreyeva, Podyadpol, Yuzhno-Morsk, Gaydamal, Preobrazheniye, Moryak-Rybolov, Nazimov, Pyati Okhotnikov, Sokolovskaian, and at the mouth of the Opritchninka River. Key commodities handled include coal, petroleum products, containers, and refrigerated goods, including fishery resources.[4]

History

Merchant navigation in Nakhodka Bay dates back to the establishment of a trading post by the Department of Siberian Appanages, first mentioned in 1863.[5] Early infrastructure included a pier, warehouses, and a forge to service sea vessels. Most freight operations were conducted by the departmental steamship Nakhodka. In 1906, a cargo-passenger line between Vladivostok and Nakhodka was opened at the mouth of the Suchan River.[6] The steamship Siberia, operated by the Heinrich Keyserling Company, made regular voyages twice a week during this period.[7]

In the 1930s, a railway was extended to Nakhodka Bay near Cape Shefner. A 125-meter pier was constructed, and the Nakhodka port point was officially opened with management offices on Delovaya (now Portovaya) Street.[8]

On October 7, 1939, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars passed a resolution to transfer commercial and fishing port operations from Vladivostok to Nakhodka Bay. The port was largely built by Gulag prisoners under the "Corrective Labor Camp and Construction Directorate No. 213," and from 1942, under the Dalstroy of the NKVD.[9] From 1938 to 1946, Nakhodka served as a transit point for Sevvostlag, where Dalstroy vessels like the Kulu, Dzhurma, and Felix Dzerzhinsky transported prisoners to Magadan in the Kolyma region.[10] This transit system continued until a massive explosion on the ship Dalstroy in the summer of 1946.[11][12]

The port was officially established on June 17, 1947, by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.[13] The first merchant ship to dock was the Danish liner Greta Maersk. The fishing port began operations in 1950, followed by the opening of the Nakhodka Active Marine Fishing Base and the Primorsky Ship Repair Yard in the mid-1950s. The Vostochny and oil loading ports were commissioned in 1973. In 2009, the separate administrations for the commercial, fishing, and oil ports were merged into a single entity.[14]

Administration

State control ensuring navigation safety and order is exercised by the Federal State Institution "Administration of the Seaport of Nakhodka", headed by the Harbor Master.[14]

Following the 2009 administrative merger, the jurisdiction of the Nakhodka Harbor Master was expanded to include fishing terminals located outside Nakhodka Bay, such as those in Livadia, Putyatin, and Preobrazheniye. The Nakhodka Transport Prosecutor's Office supervises legal compliance. Security and border control are managed by the Nakhodka Department of Internal Affairs for Transport and the FSB Border Guard Service, which stations a brigade of patrol ships at Cape Astafyev. Customs operations are handled by the Nakhodka Customs Office, covering the coastline from the closed city of Fokino to the border of Khabarovsk Krai.[15]

Tonnage

Cargo throughput (millions of tons)
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Tonnage 18.4[16] 20.7[17] 21.3[18] 23.3[19] 24.2[20] 24.3[21] 25.6[22] 26.8[23] 26.8[24]

Shipyards

Nakhodka Bay is home to several major shipyards, including the Nakhodka Shipyard, the Primorsky Ship Repair Factory, the Far Eastern Ship Mechanical Plant, and the Gaidamak Shipyard.[25]

  • Fuel tanks at the port of Nakhodka.
  • Coal handling with Mount Sestra in the background.
  • Aerial view of the shipyards and quays.
  • Docks of the ship repair yard and part of the city.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Установлены фактические глубины и предельно допустимые осадки судов у причалов порта Находка (Приморье)" [Actual depths and maximum permissible drafts of ships at the berths of the port of Nakhodka (Primorye) have been established]. PortNews (in Russian). March 13, 2020. Archived from the original on March 15, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  2. ^ "Грузооборот морских портов России за 12 месяцев 2020 года" [Cargo turnover of Russian seaports for 12 months of 2020]. morport.com (in Russian). Association of Commercial Sea Ports. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  3. ^ "Nakhodka port - NAKHODKA MARITIME SERVICES LLC". nhk-maritime.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on June 16, 2025. Retrieved December 27, 2025.
  4. ^ "Development of Port Infrastructure Facilities and Fleet of the Far Eastern Basin Branch". rosmorport.com. Retrieved December 27, 2025.
  5. ^ British Ornithologists' Union (1868). The Ibis. Vol. 4. p. 129.
  6. ^ Bendyak, E. E. (2020). "Как развивалась жизнь по берегам залива Америка в конце XIX века и в первой четверти XX века" [How life developed along the shores of America Bay at the end of the 19th century and in the first quarter of the 20th century] (PDF) (in Russian). nakhodka-lib.ru. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  7. ^ Shepchugov, P. I. (2007). У истоков города Находка [At the source of the city of Nakhodka] (PDF) (in Russian). Vladivostok: Administration of the Nakhodka Urban District. pp. 20, 30–31. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  8. ^ Balakirev, N. G. (1997). Находка - причал России : К 50 -летию Находк. мор. торг. порта (1947 - 1997) [Nakhodka - a pier in Russia: For the 50th anniversary of the Nakhodka Commercial Sea Port (1947–1997)] (in Russian). Vladivostok and Ussuri: Уссури. pp. 15, 17. ISBN 5-85832-085-6. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  9. ^ Приморский край [Primorsky Krai] (in Russian). Vladivostok: Primorsky Book Publishing House. 1958. pp. 290–291.
  10. ^ Navasardov, A. S. (2004). Освоение Северо-Востока СССР в 30-е гг. XX в. (историко-демографический аспект) [Development of the North-East of the USSR in the 30s of the 20th Century (Historical and Demographic Aspect)] (in Russian). Magadan: North-East Scientific Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. p. 61. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  11. ^ "История порта" [History of the Port]. nmrp.ru (in Russian). Official site of the Nakhodka Maritime Fishing Port. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  12. ^ "Трагедия в порту: взрыв парохода Дальстрой" [Tragedy in the port: the explosion of the steamship Dalstroy]. magadanmedia.ru (in Russian). July 24, 2023. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  13. ^ Zaitsev, Yuri Mikhailovich (2015). "Запрещённые, или особые, зоны Владивостока и края (1930-1950 гг. )" [Forbidden, or special, zones of Vladivostok and the region (1930–1950)]. Russia and the APR (in Russian). 1 (87): 69–80. ISSN 1026-8804. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Сайт АО Находкинский МТП » История" [Nakhodka MTP JSC website » History]. nmtport.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  15. ^ "Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation of December 27, 2017 No. 540". cis-legislation.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2025.
  16. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports up 3.9% to 589 mln t in 2013". Portnews. January 14, 2014. Archived from the original on September 7, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  17. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports (including Crimea) up 5.7% to 623.4 mln t in 2014". Portnews. January 21, 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  18. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports up 5.7% to 676.7 mln t in 2015". Portnews. January 18, 2016. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  19. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports up 6.7% to 721.9 mln t in 2016". Portnews. January 13, 2017. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  20. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports in 2017 grew by 9% to 786.97 mln t". Portnews. January 12, 2018. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  21. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports in 2018 grew by 3.8% Y-o-Y to 816.5 million tonnes". Portnews. January 16, 2019. Archived from the original on January 18, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  22. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports in 2019 grew by 2.9% to 840.3 million tonnes of cargo". Portnews. January 14, 2020. Archived from the original on January 17, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  23. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports in 2020 declined by 2.3%". Portnews. January 18, 2021. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  24. ^ "Throughput of Russian seaports in 2021 climbed by 1.7%". Portnews. January 18, 2022. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  25. ^ Lebedev, G. V. (2021). "Морская инфраструктура Приморского края" [Marine Infrastructure of Primorsky Krai]. Regional Economy (in Russian). 15 (3): 112–125.
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