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2010 August 20   13:46

Petrolesport handles the first Hamburg Sud’s container carrier

Petrolesport JSC (part of Global Ports Group) has completed handling of the Santa Giulianna container carrier, the N-Trance press service said.
 
The fist call of the vessel of the ocean line operator Hamburg Sud at the Russian port took place yesterday. The ship of capacity of 2,000 TEUs, docked at the Petrolesport’s terminal to take 757 containers laden with exports and empty containers owned by Hamburg Sud.
 
Earlier, the ocean operator had used only feeder services’ vessels for cargo transportation to Russia.

The cargo loaded by Petrolesport to the ship will be delivered to the ports in South America. The Santa Giulianna is expected to arrive at the port of destination (Santos Port, Sao Paulo, Brazil) in 19 days, a record transit time.
 
"The first call should be considered as a pilot ship’s call. Hamburg Sud takes the Russian market very seriously. The company has projected to expand on the Russian market," said Alexey Baranov, the Hamburg Sud’s Russian representative, CEO of International Transport & Logistics CJSC. 
 
According to Alexander Svetlichniy, the commercial manager of Petrolesport, last year the company carried out a large-scale program aimed at improving the PLP’s terminal services. "We see the interest of Hamburg Sud to our work, as confirmation of the correctness of the chosen strategy. Today, technical and service level of a container terminal of Petrolesport meets the highest standards. Among our clients are the leading international linear operators", said Alexander Svetlichniy.

The Hamburg-based German container line, Hamburg Süd DG was founded in 1871. The Company is part of a group of companies Oetker. HS specializes in servicing the North-South trade routes. It is the largest global container carrier in South America. .

Petrolesport (PLP JSC) is a stevedoring company in the Big Port of St. Petersburg. The company provides services for handling a broad range of commodities (refrigerators, ro-ro, timber, general cargo). PLP JSC is a leader in container handling volumes in the North-West region of Russia.

Global Ports Investments Plc (GPI) is a group of companies comprising the leading Russian operators of container terminals. It is intergrated N-Trance in the group, a largest private operator in the transport market in Russia, CIS and Baltic states.

Delta Shipping Lines is an independent private container operator. The company was founded in 2004. Today the company operates modern container carriers of ice class, as well as the brand-new container handling facilities of all types, including reefer. The company’s ships regularly call at the seaports of Saint-Petersburg, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Tilbury.
 
The GPI’s terminals are scattered in the Baltic and the Far East basin. The 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). As of now, the GPI is implementing a Yanino dry terminal development project near St. Petersburg.
 
 
 

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