Throughput of Tuapse Sea Commercial Port in 1H’2019 grew by 3% YoY to 7 million tonnes

Tuapse Sea Commercial Port (TSCP Group, part of UCL Holding) says its throughput in January-June 2019 totaled 7 million tonnes, up 3%, year-on-year.

According to the statement, the growth was driven by increased transshipment of oil cargo to 3.1 million tonnes (+18%, year-on-year) although transshipment of dry bulk cargo fell by 6.5% to 3.8 million tonnes due to reduction of grain and ferrous metal shipments.

In the reporting period, Tuapse Grain Terminal shipped 0.7 million tonnes of export grain (-38%), which reflects the general trend of that market.

Turnover of ferrous metal dropped by 14% to 1.3 million tonnes including 1.2 million tonnes of slabs (-12.5%). The decrease should be attributed to repair works launched at slab production facilities of NLMK Group, the port’s strategic partner. 

The reduction in this segment was partially compensated by increased transshipment of coal – up to 1.8 million tonnes. As compared with the same period of the previous year, it grew by over 21%.

Having expanded the range of fruits and vegetables and the geography of cargo flows, TSCP boosted their transshipment by over 3.1 times to 84,000 tonnes. Additional 32,000 tonnes of imports was ensured by raw sugar which had not been handled at TSCP from 2016.

In general, transshipment of import and coastal trade cargo grew to 0.2 million tonnes making 3% of the total throughput of the port. Exports remained almost flat versus the first half of 2018 — 6.8 million tonnes (+2%).

Between January and July 2019, TSCP handled 314 commercial ships (166 dry cargo carriers and 148 oil tankers) and 53,000 railcars.

Tuapse Sea Commercial Port (TCSP Group) is the major terminal operator at the Port of Tuapse, one of Russia’s largest ports. TCSP is part of UCL Port, a stevedoring division of international transport group UCL Holding. UCL Port comprises Sea Port St. Petersburg JSC, Container Terminal Saint Petersburg CJSC, Universal Handling Terminal LLC based in the North-West of Russia, and Taganrog Commercial Sea Port in the South. The fleet of TCSP’s cargo handling equipment numbers 28 portal cranes with capacity of 10 to 124 tonnes, 65 loaders and bulldozers. In 2018, the company handled 13.04 million tonnes of cargo.