# Dudinka (RU DUD)

**UN/LOCODE:** RU DUD  
**Country:** Russia  
**Water Body:** Kara Sea; Arctic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Medium  
**Harbor Type:** River (Natural)  
**GPS:** 69.4000, 86.1667

Dudinka functions as the dedicated shipping port of mining and metals group Nornickel, a highly specialised industrial terminal on the lower Yenisei River in the Russian Arctic. Nickel, copper, cobalt, coal and ore arrive by rail from Norilsk and are loaded for transport along the Northern Sea Route to Murmansk and at times directly to Western Europe. Throughput is around 4.5 million tonnes a year, moved largely by Nornickel's own fleet of ice-class container vessels that operate year-round between Dudinka, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. This is not an open container or liner port for third-party shippers but a largely captive industrial facility; publicly bookable liner services are not confirmed. Operations are suspended each early summer when flooding and ice break-up at the Yenisei estuary halt loading. Western European direct services are heavily constrained by sanctions imposed on Russia. The region offers virtually no alternative ports; Western shippers handling Arctic flows tend to rely on Murmansk.

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