1. Capacity Building project for the Russian Timber Sector
UNECE Project
Capacity Building project for the Russian Timber Sector
Poiana Brasov 26 March 2003
Hans Jansen
Project Manager
UNECE Trade Development and Timber Division
9/19/2018

2. Key elements of the project
Sustainable Development
Cross Sectoral work
Priority concerns of member States
Cooperation with the
private sector
Regional Level

3. Core activities Sustainable development of the forest sector
Customs cooperation
Timber port logistics
Trade facilitation procedures
Biomass trade logistics

4. Project Focus on North Western Russia
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Leningrad Oblast

5. Activities in 2003
Conference on Sustainable Development and Certification in the Forest Industry of North West Russia
July, St. Petersburg
Forum on Improved Trade Logistics for the Sustainable Use of Biomass
September, Rotterdam
Conference on Sustainable Development Strategies at the Enterprise Level
December, St. Petersburg

6. The Russian Federation

7. Main activity within the Project
Improved Trade Logistics for the Sustainable Use of Biomass

8. Biomass as Alternative Energy
“Organic matter available on a renewable basis including forest residues, wood and wood waste.”

9. Vast forests resources

10. Timber Resources of Russia

11. Biomass

12. Sea transport systems Types of ship Self-loading carrier

13. Sea transport systems Types of ship Geared conbulker

14. Ust Luga

15. EMO terminal Rotterdam

16. Dry Bulk/Coal stevedore Blending pellets with coalUN
ECE
St. Petersburg/
Leningrad Oblast
Bulkcarrier
containers
Energy pellet factory
Woodchips
Delivery of BioMass from forests
Saw mills
Delivery of roundwood from forests
Transport mode
Rail
Road
Inland shipping
Power Plants
Power Plants
Bulkcarrier +
containers
on deck
Rotterdam
Dry Bulk/Coal stevedore +
Blending pellets with coal
Power Plants
Power Plants
Delivery of BioMass by Inland shipping

17. One of the final destinations
Amer powerplant
water depth 4 m.
expected volume
biomass approx
1 million tons

18. For further information
Hans Jansen
Project Manager
UNECE Trade Development
and Timber Division
Tel: