According to preliminary data, First Container Terminal handled 80,329 TEU in September 09 (-10%, year-on-year), Olga Denshchikova, marketing director of National Container Terminal, said at the conference "Beyond the crisis outline. New routes of water transport development" arranged by PortNews IAA. According to the forecast, the Terminal’s container throughput in the 9-month period is to fall by 18%, year-on-year, to 656,800 TEU.
In August the Terminal handled 80,957 TEU (+10.2% against July) In the 8-month period, the Terminal handled 575,298 TEU (-19.2%, year-on-year)
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;