Cargo turnover of a group of companies JSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg rose by 6% in January-September of this year from the same period last year, to more than 9 million tons, the Group press-service reports.
The nine-month freight volume growth was due primarily to a 8.5-percent gain in exports, the Group said.
In particular, coal traffic rose by 16% to 2.7 million tons, cast iron volume jumped by 32% from last year’s figure, to 541,000 tons. The volume of outbound Ro-Ro cargoes surged more than twofold, to 204,000 tons.
Generally, transshipment of inbound goods fell 7% this year. In the reporting period general cargo, in particular, refrigerated cargoes, dropped by 42% to 157,000 tons. There was a 18-percent ore volume decline in the segment of bulk cargo, to 405,000 tons.
First Stevedoring Company handled 3.5 million tons of cargo, or 6% up versus Jan-Sept, 2009. Second Stevedoring Company posted a 3-percent gain in handled volume, more than 1.4 million tons.
In nine-recent months the Third Stevedoring Company’s Ro-Ro terminal offloaded over 7,800 of imported cars (there no Ro-Ro cargoes via the terminal in Jan-Sept, 2009).
Fourth Stevedoring Company reported a 15-percent drop in freight flows to 2.4 million tons due to ongoing construction on its territory the first phase of a container terminal.
In Jan-Sept, the First Stevedoring Company’s Ro-Ro Terminal, launched in Q1, 2009, transshipped 495,000 tons of the cargo.
Universal Transshipment Terminal at Ust-Luga port handled over 1.5 million tons, a nearly twofold rise.
The Group of companies Sea Port of St. Petersburg is part of the Universal Cargo Logistics Holding BV. The Group incorporates First Stevedoring Company CJSC, Second Stevedoring Company CJSC, Third Stevedoring Company CJSC, Fourth Stevedoring Company CJSC at the Big Port of St. Petersburg, and Universal Transshipment Complex at the port of Ust-Luga and the number of service companies.
The Group’s development program of the port infrastructure involves the construction of a state-of-the-art terminal for transshipment of containerized cargoes, as well as the development of newly built and launched terminals for handling autos and Ro-Ro cargo both on the territory of the Big Port of St. Petersburg, and at the Ust-Luga’s universal transshipment terminal.