MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. The Indiga port in the Nenets Autonomous Region will begin to handle cargo in 2024, though earlier plans were for the outgoing year, the region's Governor Yury Bezdudny said at the Russia EXPO in Moscow.

"We plan to begin working in a special mode to handle cargo in 2024 already," he said. "In fact, the Indiga port will be working as a transshipment terminal."

Transshipment is a process where containers at a port en route are taken from one vessel onto another vessel. Further on, the investor, the Aeon Corporation, will develop the port infrastructures. The Indiga port will be used to ship products from the Pyzhemsky titanium ore deposit in the Komi Region.

"This is not the only cargo source. We realize that the port offers shipping options for Kuzbass coal, which nowadays can barely use the Eastern direction, for Vorkuta coal, and, for our neighbors, the Komi Region," the governor added.

The Indiga port will be built in the Barents Sea waters at Cape Bolshoy Rumyanichny, some 50 km from the village of Indiga. Due to the Gulf Stream, the ice situation there remains favorable there, allowing big gross tonnage vessels to use the port year-round.

The International RUSSIA EXPO is running from November 4, 2023 to April 12, 2024 at Moscow’s VDNKh Exhibition Center. Its goal is to showcase the country’s major achievements in various sectors of the economy. Russia’s all 89 regions have their exhibition stands. TASS is the forum’s general information agency.