Six-month freight volume at FCT rises 31.7%, to 554,720 TEUs

In the first half of this year container traffic via First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg) gained 31.7% to 554,720 TEUs, the National Container Company press release said.
In June FCT handled 99,280 TEUs, or 32.7% up from last year’s June.
 
This June the terminal loaded 46,871 TEUs of outbound containers, offloaded 52,409 TEUs of inbound ones. Refcontainers volume amounted to 11,194 TEUs. In June, the terminal handled 73 vessels, the average turnover per vessel was 1,360 TEUs, NCC said.

National Container Company (NCC) is the largest and leading container operator in Russia. The owners of the NCC in equal shares are the First Quantum Group and the FESCO Transport Group. In 2009 the total volumes via NCC’s containers terminals amounted to some 1.2 million TEUs, contributing 42.1% to overall output at Russian container ports.

NCC’s portfolio of assets includes First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg), NUTEP Container Terminal (Novorossiysk), UKRTRANSCONTAINER Container Terminal (Ilyichevsk, Odessa region, Ukraine), Ust-Luga Container Terminal (Leningrad region) and Logistics Terminal (Shushary, St. Petersburg).