Ten-month container volume of FCT is up 28.3% to 961,498 TEUs

Container throughput of First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg) in January-October 2010 increased by 28.3% compared with the same period last year, to 961,498 twenty-foot equivalent units, the National Container Company (owner of FCT) press service said.

In October, container traffic via FCT amounted to 113,272 TEUs, a 25.1-percent gain from Oct., 2009.

In October, the terminal loaded 51,535 TEUs of outbound containers, and offloaded 61,737 TEUs of inbound ones.  Refcontainers volume amounted to 12,174 TEUs.

In October, the terminal handled 78 vessels, the average turnover per vessel was 1,452 TEUs.

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, container volume passing through NCC’s terminals amounted to some 1.2 million TEUs, contributing 42.1% to total container turnover at Russian 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).