Murmansk port cargo throughput reaches 14.3m tons
Cargo traffic at Murmansk Commercial Seaport (MCS) in January-November totaled 14,328,430 tons, as of mid-November, reaching the volume planned for this year, the stevedore company said.
In November, JSC Murmansk Seaport handled 1,284,760 tons of cargo, a 15.6% gain from a year earlier. The monthly volume includes 975,750 tons of coal. Over the last month the MCS terminals handled 21,025 railcars (+24%) and 37 vessels, including coal-laden 13 bulkers and 15,303 railcars.
By this year-end the company’s throughput is expected to reach 15.5 or 15.7 million tons.
In November, Agrosfera, a sister company of Murmansk Commercial Seaport, handled 58.76 tons of cargo, versus planned 55,000 tons. Besides, Agrosfera has loaded the 500th vessel since the terminal commissioning.
The eleven-month consolidated cargo volumes of the companies amounted to 15,245,910 tons.
OJSC Murmansk Commercial Seaport was founded in 1994. MCS operates 17 berths of total length of about 3 km. The waters depths allow the port to accommodate vessels with draft of 15.5 m and length of more than 265 m. The stevedore specializes in handling ranged cargoes, including non-ferrous metals and alloys in packages, rolled ferrous metals, coal, apatite concentrate, alumina, and scrap and iron ore pellets in bulk, chemical products in bags and big-bags, construction cargo and foodstuff. In 2011, net income of the company fell 30.2% year-over-year to RUB 138,534,000, revenue – by 3.7% to RUB 1,403,254,000, cargo throughput totaled 14,420,033 tons.