Port Services

Due to its geographically advantageous location on the eastern shore of the Baltic sea, deepwater seaports, land bridges to Russia, CIS, Central Asia, Black Sea and Far East, Estonia is a perfect distribution centre (DC) providing effective access to a consumer market of 300 million.

• Estonian harbours are unique in Europe in the sense that there is still plenty of land available for the construction of new terminals. Rapid development and construction of new infrastructure and facilities.
• Depth at the quays allows to load and discharge the vessels up to VLCC loaded until 17m draft (170 000 tons).
• Estonian harbours have the most modern infrastructure and technology in Europe. All ports apply both the IMO and EU safety rules and regulations
• Europe’s most efficient terminals are situated at the Estonian harbours, so reloading of goods is performed faster than in other European harbours
• There are three EU Free Zones in Estonian ports offering wide range of business opportunities both for transit and manufacturing.
• Constantly high service quality, reliability, responsiveness and flexibility are considered as a common standard. Estonian ports and entire logistics system is working 24/7 all year round.
• Estonian ports are ice free. Vessels have easy and safe access to Estonian harbours all year around due to easily navigable waters and constant water level with no tides.
• Fast loading and discharging of vessels with any size up to 17m draft. Direct transhipments vessel-rail/truck and vice versa, or via storage facilities.
•   Full range of transhipment, storage (including customs/excise), value adding services for liquid, dry and break bulk, general cargo, frozen goods, containers, trailers, cars, trucks, buses, off-road machinery, project cargo etc
• Railroad connection from Estonian ports leads up to the Pacific Ocean, Black Sea, Mongolia and Afghanistan, as the Estonian Railways are part of the 1520mm railway network. The harmonised SMGS railway bill enables transportation of goods across the entire 1520 mm gauge rail network (Baltic countries, Russia, CIS, Central Asia, Mongolia, and Finland) and beyond on the basis of unified standards. Rail tariffs can be fixed for up to 5 years.
•   Unique value added services and high flexibility of the specialized terminals and warehouses in Estonian ports enable customers to trade with wide variety of goods and commodities – directly ex Estonian ports.

SERVICE PROVIDERS:
Port of Tallinn

Port of Sillamäe