First Container Terminal volume up 9.9 pct to 709 500 TEUs

First Container Terminal (FCT) posted for January-July of this year a 9.9-percent growth from a year earlier, to 709 585 TEUs, the National Container Company (NCC) said.

In July, container traffic at FCT jumped by 22 percent to 111 741 TEUs, including 54 389 TEUs of export containers, 57 352 TEUs of imported containers and 12 346 TEUs of reefer containers.

In July, the terminal handled 75 boxships, 1 490 TEUs per vessel.
Half-year container throughput of Logistika-Terminal totaled 49 727 TEUs. In June the terminal handled 7 388 TEUs (3 748 containers).

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 1.3m 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)