FCT’s box volume grows 4.7% to 369,370 TEUs

Container throughput of St. Petersburg-based First Container Terminal (FCT) in January-April increased by 4.7% from the same period of 2010, to 376,369 twenty-foot equivalent units, the press service of National Container Company reports. In April, container traffic rose by 16.3% to112,611 TEUs.

In April, the terminal handled 72 box ships, 54,164 TEUs of export containers, 58,447 TEUs of import containers and 18,227 TEUs of reefer containers. The average turnover per vessel was 1,564 TEUs.

In January-April, throughput of Logistics-Terminal was 26,283 TEUs. In April, the terminal handled 10,288 TEUs.

National Container Company (NCC) is the largest and leading container operator in Russia. NCC is owned 50/50 by First Quantum Group and FESCO Transport Group. In 2010, total container trade across the NCC’s stevedoring assets amounted to over 1,3 million TEUs.

NCC’s portfolio of assets includes First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg), NUTEP Container Terminal (Novorossiysk), Ukrtranscontainer (Ilyichevsk, Odessa region, Ukraine), Ust-Luga Container Terminal (Leningrad region), Logistika Terminal (Shushary St. Petersburg) and Wilhelmshaven-based JadeWeserPort (Germany)