Container throughput of First Container Terminal up 13.2% in H1 07, y-o-y
In the first half of 2007, container throughput of First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg) totaled 461,355 TEU (+13.2%, year-on-year), press release of National Container Company (NCC) states. In June the terminal handled 76,738 TEU, or 45,664 units (-2.6%, year-on-year). Turnover of refrigerated containers amounted to 7,345 TEU (-28.5%, against June 2006). Export made 39,633 TEU, import – 37,105 TEU. In June the terminal handled 63 vessels with average turnover of 1,218 TEU per vessel. National Container Company (NCC) is the leading Russian operator of container terminals in seaports of Russia and Ukraine. NCC controls 43% of CIS market in its segment. Considering volume of operations NCC is the 22nd – 23rd in the rating of major world operators of container terminals. The strategy of NCC Group is aimed at development of an integrated national container infrastructure ensuring the complete range of logistics services for transshipment and handling of container within the network of container terminals in the main seaports of Russia, CIS and Baltic states, as well as a network of land terminals and logistics centers.
NCC operates the following projects: First Container Terminal (port of St. Petersburg), Novorossijsk Container Terminal (NUTEP, port of Novorossijsk), Iljichevsk container terminal (Ukraine), the project of Baltic Container Terminal in Ust-Luga and container terminal Shushary in Leningrad region. NCC is owned in equal shares by First Quantum and FESCO transport group (FESCO’s control stock is owned by Industrial Investors Group).