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Kirkenes Harbour is strategically located with a short distance to the Barents Sea and to the Russian harbours on Kola and near the White Sea. The harbour lies innermost in the Bøk Fjord, and is well protected against the autumn and winter storms that occasionally rage outside the coast of Finnmark.
Despite the fact that Kirkenes lies as far north as the northern coast of Alaska, there are no problems keeping the harbour ice-free all the year round. If ice should happen to build up in the harbour or in the inner parts of Bøk Fjord during exceptionally cold periods, Sør-Varanger Municipality has an icebreaker that is ready to break up whatever ice there may be. The icebreaker is also approved as a tugboat and can be requisitioned according to need.
Kirkenes harbour has a total wharf frontage of 900 running metres. Of this, approximately 700 metres are concrete. The quays are owned by public authorities and private companies and have various lengths and depths. The largest quay has a length of 195 metres and a depth of 13 metres. This makes Kirkenes Harbour capable of handling ships within most categories.
Substantial ground areas totalling more than 200,000 square metres are connected to the harbour. The largest ground areas are found near the municipal quays at Prestøya.
There are loading facilities in the harbour that can handle ships ranging in size from 120 – 140,000 tons DWT. The largest ship that has called at Kirkenes Harbour is an ore ship weighing 152,000 tons DWT. This ship had a length of 308 metres.
On the largest quays there are cranes that have a lifting capacity of up to 50 tons. There are also several mobile cranes with various lifting capacities. On most quays there are trucks with a lifting capacity from 6 to 10 tons.
Services offered by Kirkenes Harbour
During recent years, the services offered by Kirkenes Harbour have been upgraded considerably. The largest investments have been made within the ship repair sector, bunker facilities and cold storage facilities.
Centrally located in the harbour is a modern ship workshop that can handle all types of repairs. The company has a large 80 x 35 – metre ship hall, so repairs can be done indoors the whole year round regardless of weather conditions.
There is a well-developed bunker offer for ships in Kirkenes. There are also bunker facilities in the harbour, where it is possible to buy gas oil, lubricating oil, detergents and other such items. The facilities have a capacity of up to 126 tons per hour.
Except for the smallest quays, it is possible to refuel fresh water and connect to 230V/400V power supply. At the Kimek Quay it is also possible to connect to a compressed air hook-up.
At Prestøya there is also a modern cold storage plant that has a capacity of 4,500 tons in blocks. The building is 2000 square metres in size and handles everything in the way of frozen products both from the sea and land.
There are several shipping agents and ship chandlers in Kirkenes. These are companies that specialize in forwarding of goods and supplying of goods to ships, respectively.
Pilotage requirement
All foreign vessels weighing more than 500 GRT wanting to visit Kirkenes Harbour are subject to the pilotage requirement. The pilotage service in Kirkenes has two government pilots and its own pilot boat.
Services outside the harbour
There is a Seaman’s Church in Kirkenes. Most visitors are Russian sailors. The Seaman’s Church has a number of good year-round offers for seamen. These include everything from relaxing with a good cup of coffee while reading a Russian newspaper, to playing billiards and sales of discounted tickets for various local cultural arrangements.
The cultural offers in Sør-Varanger are many. There are films at the cinema on most of the days of the week. A new library located in the centre of town is open every day except Sunday. "Grenselandsmuseet" (the Border Land Museum) was opened in 1997 and has a permanent exhibition from WW II. Also, Sør-Varanger’s most famous artist, John Savio, is honoured with his own gallery.
There are of course many restaurants, pubs and cafés in the centre of town. There are also several hotels and overnight stops offering different price classes. Kirkenes has also become a sought-after commercial town with a wide variety of goods and services. Many of the town’s businesses are associated with the Tax-Free system.
Besides Oslo, Kirkenes is the only town in the country that has localized the Russian Consulate-General within the municipal boundaries. The Consulate can help Russian citizens as well as others who need assistance in matters dealing with Russia.
Communications
Kirkenes has a main airport with daily flights of MD-80s. In addition to three daily flights to Oslo, Kirkenes is connected to the short runway network in Finnmark.
Due to very good connections to Murmansk, both by car, bus and airplane, Kirkenes is extensively used in connection with changing of ships’ crews. The distance between Kirkenes and Murmansk is not more than approx. 200 km along the highway. There are also fixed cargo services in the region.
Trailers and cargo ships are used for transport of goods between Kirkenes and the rest of Europe. Also, express mail and telecommunication services are well developed.
Information about Kirkenes Harbour
Local quays:
Passenger terminal – Steam ship quay – Cargo terminal.
Length 105 m. Depth 7 m.
Area 20000 m2. Warehouse 3000 m2.
Kirkenes terminal 70 m quay.
Length 70 m. Depth 9,3 m.
Area 20000 m2. Cold storage facility 4000 m2.
Fisheries and industrial quay, Jakobsnes.
Length 40 m, depth 7 m.
Contact persons:
Harbour manager - Arnt Kr. Marthinussen
Captain of the port - Alf Jørgensen
First secretary - Evy Thorsen
Tel.: 78 97 74 99
Fax: 78 97 75 88
E-mail: post@kirkenes-havn.no
Private quays:
A/S Sydvaranger, Kirkenes
Export quay:
Length 195 m. Depth 12.9 m.
Maximum cargo capacity approx. 100 000 tones in bulk.
Import quay:
Length 137 m. Depth 8,2 m.
Area 3500 m2. Crane 22 tones.
Indoor warehouse 4000 m2. Area 8000 m2.
Contact persons:
Director - Kai Bakke
Works manager - Arne Gustavsen
Tel.: 78 97 03 00
Fax: 78 97 03 01
Kimek, Kirkenes
Quay facility: 280 m. Depth from 5,5 to 8 m.
Area 9000 m2.
Warehouse, ship hall, ship lift, crane, offshore.
Contact persons:
Director - Greger Mannsverk
Operating eng. - Harald Steinmo
Coordinator - Trond Haukanes
Tel.: 78 97 71 00.
Fax: 78 97 72 70
E-mail: hst@kimek.com
Web: www.kimek.com
Murmansk Ekspressen AS – Kirkenes Trelast
Timber quay
Length 30 m (capacity boats up to 80 m), depth 8,5 m.
Area 51 000 m2. Indoor warehouse 7000 m2.
Contact persons:
Quay - Blix Iversen
Hugo Nærum
Tel.: 78 99 20 90
Fax: 78 99 83 10
Mobile: 48 21 36 00
Mobile: 90 87 90 49
E-mail: murma-ek@online.no
Ship agents and brokers:
Nor-Cargo Kirkenes
Services:
- ship agent
- customs clearance
- forwarding of goods
- weekly transport to Russia
- lease of containers
Prestøya, Kirkenes
Contact person:
Manager - Eivind Gade Lundlie
Tel.: 78 97 36 80
Fax: 78 97 36 72
E-mail: nckirkenes@norcargo.no
Web: www.nor-cargo.no
Arctic Total
Ship agent/brokerage.
Arbeidergata 4, Kirkenes
Contact person: Manager - Sergey Repov
Tel.: 78 99 15 16
Fax: 78 99 15 16
Mobile: 90 20 87 80
Kirkenes Shipping AS
Services:
- ship agent
- supply, bunkers
- transport
- repairs
- customs clearance
- goods
- unloading of fish
Presteveien 1, Kirkenes
Contact person: General Manager - Jon Bertil Myklebust.
Tel.: 78 97 35 10
Fax: 78 97 35 15
Mobile: 40 40 03 03
E-mail: info@kirkenes-shipping.no
Henriksen Shipping Service AS
Services:
- ship agent
- customs clearance
- paying out wages to crews
- transport
- bunkers
- supplies
- translations
Storgata 4, Kirkenes
Contact person: Chief agent - Arve Henriksen
Tel.: 78 99 11 29
Fax: 78 99 34 39
E-mail: h-shipp@online.no
Murmansk Ekspressen - Kirkenes Trelast
Services:
- own quay with capacity boats up to 80 m
- indoor customs warehouse 500 m_
- storage
- transport world-wide
- customs clearance
- export/import Russia
- weekly transport Kirkenes-Continent
- weekly transport to/from Russia
Joh. Knudtzensgt. 25, Kirkenes
Tel.: 78 99 17 31
Fax: 78 99 83 10
Contact persons: Kai Blix Iversen, Hugo Nærum
Mobile: 48 21 36 00
Mobile: 90 87 90 49
E-mail: murma-ek@online.no
Art Trading AS
Ship agent
Storgt.1, Kirkenes
Contact person: Sergey I. Shemetev
Tel.: 78 99 97 88
Fax: 78 99 39 96
Mobile: 95 99 37 06
Mobile: 95 28 71 28
Kirkenes Servicehavn AS
Services:
- Ship building, -repair, -maintenance
- Harbour services and facilities
- Ship management
- Ship agency
- Business development, consultants
- Representative office for domestic and foreign companies
- Accommodation
- Marketing of products
Storgt. 4, Kirkenes
Managing director - Trond Haukanes
Tel.: 78 99 24 00
Fax: 78 99 24 01
Mobile: 90 11 05 62
E-mail: ksh.th@online.no
