Container throughput of NCC terminals down 36% to 463,311 TEU
The terminals of National Container Company (NCC, part of FESCO group) handled 463,311 TEU, the company’s press release reads. In May 2009, NCC terminals increased their throughput by 7.5%, year-on-year, to 100,720 TEU.
In the reported period, the share of NCC in total throughput of Russian ports increased to 40.7% (28% as of the end of 2008 according to the Association of Sea Commercial Ports). The share of the First Container Terminal in container throughput of Big Port of St. Petersburg increased to 70.5% in January-May 09 (55% as of the end of 2008).
In May, container throughput of First Container Terminal totaled 76,822 TEU (+8.4% against April 2009). In the 5-month period, the terminal handled 346,037 TEU (-21.6%, year-on-year).
In May the terminal loaded 40,448 TEU of export cargo and unloaded 36,374 TEU of import cargo. Turnover of refrigerated containers totaled 8,578 TEU. In May the terminal handled 66 vessels with average turnover of 1,164 TEU per vessel.
Nodal Transporting and Forwarding Company of Novorossiysk handled 8,201 TEU in May (+35.8% against April 2009). In the 5-month period the terminal handled 40,593 TEU (-29.9% against January-May 2008) including 4,339 TEU of export cargo and 3,862 TEU of import cargo. Loaded/empty containers ratio was 63.8% against 36.2% respectively. In May the terminal handled 12 vessels with average turnover of 683 TEU per vessel.
Ukrtranscontainer handled 15,697 TEU (-6.8% against May 2008) including 8,627 TEU of export cargo and 7,076 TEU of import cargo. Loaded/empty containers ratio was 72.6% against 27.4% respectively. In January-May 2009 the terminal handled 78,681 TEU (-65.2%, year-on-year).
According to NCC Vice-President Egor Govorukhin, “in the second quarter of 2009 NCC managed to break negative trends caused by the economic crisis and to stabilize cargo turnover”.
“First of all it is linked with the growing traffic of export cargo handled by the Group’s terminals as well as with attraction of new customers,” Govorkhin says.
National Container Company (NCC) is the leading Russian operator of container terminals. It holds leading position at the market of stevedoring services. NCC is owned in equal shares by First Quantum and FESCO transport group (FESCO’s control stock is owned by Industrial Investors Group). In 2008, NCC terminals handled over 1.7 mln TEU. NCC assets include:
- First Container Terminal (port of St. Petersburg, leader at the market of container cargo transshipment in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries, capacity – 1.1 million TEU per year with a perspective expansion to 1.6 million TEU per year);
- Nodal Transporting and Forwarding Company of Novorossiysk (NUTEP, port of Novorossiysk, current capacity of 150 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 550 thou TEU);
- Iljichevsk container terminal (Ukraine, current capacity of 850 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 4 million TEU);
- Baltic Container Terminal in Ust-Luga (design capacity of up to 3 million TEU). It’s a large-scale project on construction of a container terminal to be implemented within the framework of a Public-Private Partnership. It is part of a group of projects aimed at construction of a multifunctional port at the mouth of the Luga-river;