Progress of Construction of the Passenger Port in Gelendzhik

In 2 years, a modern seaport capable of accommodating passenger vessels, motor and sailing small vessels of various classes will appear in one of the Black Sea resorts of Russia. The Russia’s largest yacht complex for stationing of at least 200 yachts will also be located there. The seaport to be created will ultimately form an integral part of Gelendzhik Marina tourist and recreational area that will comprise hotels, apartment units, a yachting school, a yacht club, an aqua-thermal complex with year-round indoor and outdoor swimming pools filled with seawater.

The work for construction of onshore and offshore infrastructure facilities is carried out by JSC Stroytransgaz that was determined as the sole project contractor pursuant to the Resolution of the Russian Federation Government dated 18 August 2018. The facilities are being built under ‘Development of Russia’s Transport System’ governmental programme.

The project involves creation of the main facilities and performance of the work by using the federal funds: the South quay pier and the North quay pier, dredging of the water area in the port passenger zone and the water area in the zone of the yacht marina, the port fleet and marina berths, shoreline stabilisation, navigation equipment, a fire-fighting pump station with a seawater intake facility, anti-landslide retaining walls, amenities, including parking sites.

*a quay pier is a hydraulic structure to protect water area against sea waves

We provide for your attention a video review from the construction site as a bird’s eye view

A work meeting took place on November 10 that was chaired by Zakhariy Jioyev, deputy top manager of Rosmorrechflot on issues of implementing the project of onshore and offshore infrastructure complex in the sea port of Gelendzhik.

The meeting was attended by Vadim Antipov, deputy general director of Rosmorport FSUE, Anna Fomenko, director of Azov-Black Sea basin branch of
Rosmorport FSUE, Aleksandr Kalistratov, directorate manager of facility “Onshore and offshore infrastructure complex in sea port of Gelendzhik”, representatives of general contractor - Stroytransgaz JSC - Marat Kharisov, hydrotechnical construction director, and Andrey Beshentsev, project manager, Vladimir Kolbin, general director of Sea Port Gelendzhik LLC and Aleksey Chernovoy, engineering manager of Lenmorniiproyekt JSC.

The issues of the current facility construction progress, work completion due time for construction of major facilities and their commissioning were discussed as part of the meeting. At present, pile driving was completed for the South quay pier, work on building the upper structure* of the South quay pier is in progress. The construction and installation works on the North quay pier with the adjoining berths are performed in accordance with the schedule of their execution.

*the upper structure is the South quay pier platform intended for movement of people and machines

The meeting attendees got familiarized with construction progress for the South and North quay piers by inspecting the construction and installation works at the facilities.

At present, as part of building the South quay pier for construction of the upper structure, the installation of the support beams and boards of unremovable sheet steel casing of a total amount of 51.3 ton was made; reinforcement construction and installation of embedded parts were made to the amount of 327.36 ton; the disassembly of the boards of removable casing was made to the amount of 2,567.7 m²; concreting of the upper structure was made to the amount of 2,660 m³.

Upper structure of the South quay pier

Pile foundation of the South quay pier

As part of building the North quay pier, general piles and tubular sheet piles were delivered to the construction site in the amount of 193 out of 206 pieces, which is 93.7% of the total amount.  The guide piles were recovered and repeatedly driven 26 times. The driving of 58 general piles and tubular sheet piles was made as well to the design elevation.

As part of building Berth No. 1, 22 pieces of general piles and tubular sheet piles were driven to the design elevation. For birth No. 2, 6 guide piles were driven, 17 pieces of general piles and tubular sheet piles were driven on the construction site.

As part of building Marine Berth No. 3.2, 60 guide piles were driven, 119 pieces of general piles and tubular sheet piles were driven to the design elevation (88.8 % of the total amount). For Marine Berth No. 3.3, 12 guide piles were driven, 57 pieces of general piles and tubular sheet piles were driven to the design elevation (73 % of the total amount).

Construction of pile foundation of Berth No. 3.2, 3.3

Berths No. 1, 2, 3.2, 3.3

At present 115 persons and 32 pieces of machinery work on the construction site.

Gelendzhik is a popular resort at the Black Sea coast in Krasnodar Territory. The town takes in a quarter of the region’s total tourist flow: more than 4 million people a year. Being aware of the environmental uniqueness of the Black Sea as well as the stringent requirements for construction in the resort town area, STG takes a number of environment protection measures to prevent and reduce the negative impact on the environment. Environmental control is conducted regularly, and the quality of atmospheric air and marine environment, water biological resources, and plant life is examined.

Execution of the project for construction of onshore and offshore infrastructure facilities will play an important social and economic role in the town development, as the created comfortable environment will allow to raise the level of the town’s appeal for tourists, which, in turn, will have a favourable effect on the town economy and the people’s life quality, as well as will promote the development of the maritime transport routes of the coastal region.