A grain terminal with a capacity of 1.5 million tons will be launched in the port of Makhachkala in 2028.

By the end of 2028, the Makhachkala Sea Trade Port (MMTP) will complete the construction of the largest grain terminal on the Caspian Sea. Its handling capacity will be 1.5 million tons of grain per year, with a storage capacity of 500,000 tons. Currently, the construction of a road from the port, connecting it to the federal highways Astrakhan-Makhachkala and Rostov-Baku, is being funded by federal and republican budgets. Also, the modernization of the container terminal is planned using the port's own funds. Currently, the Makhachkala port's transshipment capacity for grain is 500,000 tons per year. According to independent expert on the agrarian market Alexander Korbut, the expansion of the MMTP's handling capacity and reconstruction is timely. However, the director of the analytical company "SovEcon" Andrey Sizov previously said on "RBK TV South" that the project to increase the capacity for transshipment of grain cargo at the MMTP may be economically disadvantageous in the ...