North-Western Shipping Company (NWS) announced that the company’s vessels have successfully delivered to the port of Tobolsk another cargo of heavy-lift equipment of 2000 tons for the construction of one of the world's largest polypropylene production complex.
The company’s vessels the Captain Galashin and the Captain Kuznetsov carried at the first phase 564 tons of the cargo from Europe to Tobolsk in transit on the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
At the same time, the Stella Prima and the Daniela of Jumbo Shipping transported 1.300 tons of equipment from South Korea and the European ports to Arkhangelsk with further transshipment of the cargo to a ‘river-sea’ vessel of North-Western Shipping and ti an articulated tug / barge.
Overall, there were five vessels that transported the heavy-lift cargo from Europe, Arkhangelsk to Tobolsk from July 7 to August 23.
The NWS’ subsidiary Volga-Baltic Logistic was responsible for time-charter agreements.
NWSC, part of VBTH, is a majority owned shipping asset of UCL Holding. The Dutch-registered Universal Cargo Logistics Holding (UCL Holding) is an international transportation holding comprising stevedoring companies of Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg and Universal Transshipment Complex; Tuapse and Taganrog ports; Volga Shipping, North-West Shipping and Western Shipping companies; a number of shipbuilding, shipping and logistics assets.
The company operates a fleet of over 120 vessels with total deadweight of about 430,000 tons, including 97 ‘river-sea’ ships, 7 barges, 8 tugboats and 9 auxiliary ships. NWS’ annual shipping volume reaches about 6 million tons.