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Location: Nizhny Novgorod was a cargo port located on the Strelka in Nizhny Novgorod , at the confluence of the two rivers Volga and Oka. General overview: The port on the Strelka was consisting of three cargo areas, both on the Volga side and on the Oka side, with the corresponding names - Central, Volga and Oka. Until 2017, Nizhny Novgorod cargo river port was engaged in the extraction of river sand on an industrial scale, storage and transportation of various cargoes. Nizhny Novgorod port had 9 sand beds in the waters of the Volga River from Vasilsursk to Nizhny Novgorod and in Dudenev on the Oka. The development of these fields made it possible to reduce as far as possible the transport distance to the objects under construction. The main cargoes handled were mineral and construction goods: stone, metal, reinforced concrete products, salt, coal, slag, fertilizers, other materials and raw materials. Several portal cranes (now dismantled) were used in the cargo port of Nizhny Novgorod to transfer sand and other cargo Nowadays the port is currently liquidated, due to the appearance of a new stadium for the football World Cup in 2018. After the completion of the stadium, the modern cargo port on Strelka was eliminated, and instead of it there is a park. Cargo port is planned to be relocated and further developed at the new location. According to the draft resolution of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod (in the context of changes in the situation with the river port) it is planned to: - Transfer of the river cargo port from the territory of Strelka; - Distribution of the upcoming cargo work among the existing HGT wharfs, city of Bor, city of Kstovo, etc.; - Establishment of a container terminal and logistics centres at the river port of Nizhny Novgorod which will serve international transport corridors. Traffic figures: Every year the port handled about 1,500,000 million tons of cargo, during the navigation period mined and transported more than 2,000,000 tons of river sand from the bed of the river, while reloading about 700 thousand tons of enriched sand and gravel mixture and crushed stone materials.