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2010 July 9   10:38

Petrolesport handles locomotives, imported by Kazakhstan

Petrolesport JSC has offloaded at its ferry terminal at the Big Port of St. Petersburg, 12 diesel locomotives from the Fedora ship (owned and operated by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics). The transit cargo was delivered for Astana locomotive factory (Kazakhstan), said the press service of the N-Trance (managed by Global Ports).

These locomotives became the first delivery of equipment imported from the U.S. to the Kazakhstan Railroad via the North-West Russia. Previously, the transit cargoes had been transported via the ports of Ilyichevsk (Ukraine) and Novorossiysk (Russia).

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is one of the largest ocean carriers of agricultural, construction and automotive equipment. The company also specializes in the transportation of project cargoes, such as trains, generators, equipment for coal mines, yachts. Starmarin Company is the Russian agent of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics.

The Fedora ship is one of the world’s largest automobile carriers (length - 227.8 m, beam - 32.26 m, GRT - 71,583 tons, capacity - 67,300 cubic meters). Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has 3 such class ships – the Faust, the Fidelio, and the Fedora. In October, 2009 the Fidelio called at Petrolesport with a shipment of Ro-Ro cargo.

Petrolesport (PLP JSC) is a stevedoring company of the Big Port of St. Petersburg, part of Global Ports Group. PLP provides transshipment of various cargoes (refcontainers, Ro-Ro, timber, general). The company is leading in handling of containers and Ro-Ro cargo volume among the North-West stevedoring companies.

Global Ports Investments Plc (GPI) is a group of companies comprising the leading operators of container terminals in Russia, part of N-Trance Group, the largest private operator on the Russian transportation market, as well as in CIS and the Baltic countries.

GPI terminals are located in the Baltic and the Far Eastern basin of Russia. GPI manages three Russian container terminals (Petrolesport, Moby Dick in St. Petersburg and the Eastern Stevedoring Company at the port of Vostochny) and two container terminals in Finland (Multi-Link Helsinki, Multi-Link Kotka). At present, GPI is implementing the development of Yanino, a dry terminal project near St. Petersburg.

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