The Kaliningrad’s transport complex: Present situation and perspectives for trans-border cooperation Leonid Meyler Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy   Hamburg, Germany   May, 2007

An unique location of the Kaliningrad region of Russia “inside of EU ” 2

! ! ! ! ! FINLAND NORWAY SWEDEN DENMARK GERMANY BELARUS POLAND LITHUANIA LATVIA Kaliningrad RUSSIA KALININGRAD REGION OF RUSSIAN FEDERATIONMinsk Riga Copenhagen Warsaw Berlin UKRAINE 600 кm 300 кm Pskov Stockholm Vilnius ESTONIA 3

Kaliningrad Baltiysk Pionersk Zelenogradsk Polessk Slavsk Sovetsk Gvardeisk Chernjachovsk Krasnoznamensk Nesterov Gusev Zheleznodorozhny Bagrationovsk Mamonovo Pravdinsk Svetlogorsk Neman Svetly Primorsk Ладушкин Ozersk Kybartai Skandava Bartoshitse Branevo railway gauge 1520 mm wide (Russia, Finland) railway gauge 1435 mm wide (Europe) The Baltic sea Regional railway scheme Poland Lithuania fibre-optic cable Berlin Railway boader station Chernyshevskoje4

Moscow Kiev Irkutsk Perm Omsk Yekaterinburg Tashkent Vladivostok North- South TransSyberian railway Astrakhan Кaliningrad Minsk Cargo traffics formation Nizhniy Novgorod S.-Petersburg Novosybirsk Krasnoyarsk Habarovsk Almaaty5

Ozersk The Baltic Sea Lithuania IX D I А Chernyshevskoe- Kybartai Sovetsk - Panemune Mamonovo II - Gzhechotki Kaliningrad Baltiysk Pionersk Zelenogradsk Sovetsk Gvardeisk ChernyachovskNesterov Gusev Zheleznodorozhny Bagrationovsk Mamonovo Svetlogorsk Svetly Bagrationovsk - Bezledy Gusev - Goldap Rybachyi - Nida Mamonovo - Gronovo Boundary passing terminals and Trans-European corridors Poland6

$ $ $ $ $ $ E E Klaipeda E Sovetsk E BELORUSSIA FINLAND SWEDEN ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA POLAND VILNIUS UKRAINE RIGA TALLINN St Petersburg HELSINKI MINSK WARSAW Gdansk IX I IX D RUSSIA KALININGRAD Italy Norway To Kiev Sauliai I А VI Greece Transport Corridor I Transport Corridor I A Transport Corridor IX Transport Corridor IX D Kaunas STOCKHOLM MOSCOW7

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Port development is begun from entering in the Hansa Union Port development is begun from entering in the Hansa Union14

Bird-eye view at the port of Kaliningrad and Kaliningrad Seaway Canal 15

Расположение перегрузочных комплексов порта Калининград Location of Kaliningrad’s port terminals 16 The Baltic Sea

lay - out  outport of Baltyisk  Internal harbors in Kaliningrad  Terminals along of the sea canal (43 km long) Berth  111 berths with m length Canal parameters  A half distance from the canal entering: depth 10,5 m; width 80 m  The second part: depth 9,0 m; width 50 m throughput  Design throughput – 20 mln. t  Cargo turnover (2005) – 14,6 mln. t Port of Kaliningrad: 17

Port of Kaliningrad today 21

KIEL KALININGRAD KLAIPEDA RIGA ROTTERDAM OSTENDE IPSWICH IMMINGHAM BREMERHAVEN Container lines KOLDING St. Petersburg22

Kaliningrad Lubek Sassnit z Saint-Petersburg Ferry lines Helsinki Kotka Klaipeda Karlshamn Antwerpen 23

(Basin No. 3) Torgovaya Harbour Basin No. 4 Territory and water area in Baltiysk assigned for construction of ferry terminals The Baltic Sea Primorskaya Bay Kaliningrad Bay Kaliningrad Sea-Canal24

View of multipurpose ferry terminal in port of Baltyisk25

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