NCC’s 3 terminals throughput up 12.4% to over 1m TEUs last year

Total container trade across the National Container Company’s assets in the calendar year 2010 increased by 12.4% from 2009's figures, to 1,297,921 TEUs, the company’s press release said.

Container traffic via St. Petersburg-based First Container Terminal (FCT) rose by 23.5% from a year earlier, to 1,159,989 TEUs. In December, shipments of containers via the terminal totaled 92,303 TEUs, a year-over-year 5.4-percent gain.

Novorossiysk-based NUTEP terminal handled 124,626 TEUs, 3.2% more than in 2009. Container count in December slumped by 31.3% y-o-y to 12,446 TEUs.

NCC’s Shushary-based Logistika-Terminal (St.Petersburg), launched in 2010, handled 18,510 TEUs.

National Container Company (NCC) is the largest and leading container operator in Russia. NCC is in cross ownership (50/50) of the First Quantum Group and the FESCO Transport Group. In 2009, container traffic passing through the NCC’s terminals amounted to some 1.2 million TEUs, contributing 42.1% to total container throughput of Russian ports.