Passenger Port of St. Petersburg

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg
Location
Country	Russia
Location	St. Petersburg, Vasilievsky Island
Coordinates
Details
Opened	July, 28th 2007
Operated by	Big port Saint Petersburg
Owned by	Marine Facade Management Company (builder)
Type of harbor	Passenger Sea Terminus
Available berths	3
Wharfs	7
Piers	0
Statistics
Passenger traffic	12,000 per day
Website

The Passenger Port of St. Petersburg (Russian: Пассажирский порт Санкт-Петербург) is a passenger port in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was completed on 27 May 2011 and was officially handed over to the city government. It is located on reclaimed alluvial territories of the Marine Facade of Vasilevsky island fronting the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.

Construction chronology

In 2006

Marine facade Company has built:

• 35 hectares of reclaimed land;
• The technological channel on water area of seaport for building of moorings;
• Access technological road;
• The dividing dam.

In 2007

By July, 28th the educational sailing vessel named "Young Baltiets" was moored at berth number seven.

In 2008

Two moorings, building the cruise terminal and coastal constructions necessary for work are constructed and transferred in the summer.

• On September, 10th, 2008 the port accepted the first passenger cruise liner a 16-deck Italian vessel named "Costa Mediterranea".

In 2009

On August a hydrofoil line to Peterhof and Winter Palace was started.

In 2011

Work on the passenger port was completed and the newly completed Marine Facade sea passenger port was officially handed over to the city government.

The schedule of building of port

Stage	Year	Harbor walls	Note
1	2008	Two walls	With a complex necessary port structures
2	2009	Three walls
3	2010	Two walls

References

St Petersburg Sea Passenger Port Cruise Ship berthing schedule