Construction, Estonia, Good for Business, Port, Transport

Transiidikeskus plans to complete the first stage of construction work by next summer and start operating it. "Completion of the first stage of the container terminal extension enables us to increase our production volume by 150,000 TEU by the end of this year and bring the production capacity of our container terminal to 600,000 TEU a year," said Transiidikeskus board chairman Erik Laidvee.

Transiidikeskus acquired Rail Garant Estonia OÜ, which has building rights in the Muuga port on April 25 which enables Transiidikeskus to start expanding its terminal activities and increasing production capacity.

Tallinna Sadam declared the offer of Russian company Rail Garant as the best among bids that were submitted for operating the new Muuga port container terminal area in March 2011. The other contestant of the competition, Transiidikeskus, that operates the Muuga CT container terminal next to the new terminal area, declared at once then that it would dispute the results. The terminal was supposed to start working in the first quarter of 2013 according to initial plans.