Ventspils Grain Terminal, a/s

The specialized terminal JSC “Ventspils Grain Terminal” for transshipping grain cargoes was established to attract and transship grain and other bulk cargos from Russia, Kazakhstan and the Baltic States to the world market, and it started its operations in August 2005.

Located in the ice-free and deep-water Ventspils Free Port, the terminal currently offers to its clients freight forwarding, storage and transshipment for export, import and transit cargoes of grain and other agricultural products and their processed products, as well as the services of a modern laboratory, certified by GAFTA and accredited by LATAK.

High loading and discharge rates in combination with possibility of handling sea-going vessels, including Panamax type (shipments up to 75 000 tons), allows handling of more than 2 million tons of cargo per year.

Individual approach to each of clients, high level of professionalism, strong experience and best performance in any situation are the basic principles of our business culture.

Services

As a terminal and forwarding agent in one person, JSC “Ventspils Grain Terminal” provides the entirety of services to ensure the carriage of goods from Latvian border to loading on board the vessel and back at the most favorable conditions for the client.

The integrated standard rate for cargo servicing includes the following services:

• Transit through Latvia, document execution;
• Unloading of cargo from wagons, wagon cleaning from the cargo remnants, return of empty wagons;
• Re-weighing of goods in wagons on railway scales;
• Normative storage of cargo for 30 days;
• Loading on the vessel;
• Use of the railway tracks of the terminal;
• Shunting operations;
• Laboratory control (express analyses);
• Prompt provision of information.

The rate is calculated individually for each client, taking into account the seasonal nature of the goods, the declared amounts, many years of experience and prospects for cooperation, and other factors. The Company offers its clients the possibility of concluding long-term contracts.

The method for determining the shipped amount – according to the certified bunker scales of the terminal. Terms of loading SSHINC.

Range of handled goods:

Export / transit: grain cargo of all kinds, corn, rapeseed, flax, beet pulp, sunflower meal, husk, sunflower, malt, etc.

Import / transit: food granules, meal, malt, raw sugar, soybeans, etc.