How We Developed a Corporate Website for an Industrial Giant Through Four Rounds of Bureaucratic Approval
Vostochny Port
“Vostochny Port” is a Russian seaport of federal significance located in Wrangel Bay, part of the Nakhodka Gulf of the Sea of Japan. It is part of Russia’s largest transport hub on the Pacific Ocean — “Vostochny-Nakhodka.”
Client website: Vostochny Port
PROJECT GOALS
The client had an outdated website that no longer met technical requirements, modern visual standards, or the scale of the enterprise.
The objective was to create a corporate web portal that would reflect and enhance the company’s image.
SOLUTION
We drafted the technical specifications and requirements from scratch.
Then, we designed the portal.
We created numerous sections, including: general Information, technologies, industrial ecology, social policy, press center, procurement
RESULT
Over the course of 1.5 years, we developed a large-scale corporate portal that meets both modern standards and the scale of the enterprise.
We trained the client to use the site and showed them how to update it.
How the Work Was Structured
The project started without a usable brief. The technical specifications and requirements were drafted from scratch, the portal was designed on that basis, and the wide set of sections was built only after that.
Vostochny Port is a seaport of federal significance in Wrangel Bay, part of the Nakhodka Gulf of the Sea of Japan, and it sits inside the Vostochny-Nakhodka hub — Russia’s largest transport hub on the Pacific. The portal had to match that scale, which is why it was treated as a corporate web portal rather than a compact marketing site.
Four Rounds of Approval and Handover
The project passed four rounds of approval: the specification, the design and the section structure were reviewed and agreed before the work moved forward. That negotiation is reflected in the timeline — 1.5 years from the first version of the specification to the finished portal.
The handover was part of the scope. The client’s team was trained to work with the portal and shown how to update it independently, so the site does not depend on the agency for routine content changes.
