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Sent back of a year the completion of the new container terminal in the harbour area of Muuga to Tallinn
the Transiidikeskuse Estonian in negotiations in order to acquire the Rail Garant Estonia, the society that will manage the system
April 12, 2013
Yesterday the Harbour Authority of Tallinn has decided to send back of a year, until July 2014, the completion of a new container terminal of the harbour area of Muuga receiving the demand for the Rail Garant Estonia, the branch of the Russian group Rail Garant specialized in the industrial cargo rail shipment that in March 2011 has obtained the management of the new harbour infrastructure having which won the appropriate contest.
According to the precedence programs, the operating inauguration of the first phase of the terminal - that it will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 210.000 teu - would be future due the next summer, while the completion of the second phase - that it will carry the total ability to the system to 300.000 teu - was previewed at the end of 2013. The project previews an investment of 54 million euros with an economic contribution by the European Union.
While the terminalista society Estonian Transiidikeskuse has announced of having in course negotiations in order to acquire the Rail Garant Estonia. Transiidikeskuse, than work a container terminal in the harbour area of Muuga that has an ability to traffic of 450.000 teu, had participated without success to the contest for the management of the new container terminal. In the 2012 terminal of the Transiidikeskuse it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 224.721 teu.
The dismissal of the completion of the new terminal is mainly decided because of the delays in the realization of the project had to the controversies lawyers on the award of the contest (the same Transiidikeskuse had introduced resorted).
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