Sea Port St. Petersburg throughput down 5 percent in Jan-Sept
Total cargo traffic at Sea Port St. Petersburg Group for 9 recent months of 2011 decreased by 5% compared to January-September of 2010, to 8.6 million tons, the Group press service said.
The decline was due to reduced coal exports as the Group has focused more on eco-friendly and more profitable goods and commissioned new container terminal based at the territory of Fourth Stevedoring Company, the report said.
Exports flows, largely bulk and grab cargo, shrank by 17%, to 6.6 million tons. Handling of general and rolling cargoes rose to 4.4 million tons (+5%) and 232,000 tons (+13%), respectively. Coal shipments slumped by 50 percent from last year’s figure, to 1.4 million tons, handling of mineral fertilizer fell by 27 percent to 563,000 tons.
Imports surged by 72 percent to 2 million tons. Handling of ore increased by 14% to 463,000 tons, of break bulk general cargo - by 47% to 423,000 tons. Shipments of refrigerated cargo jumped by nearly twofold to 302,000 tons, Ro-Ro cargo – by 75% to 510,000 tons.
Container volumes have soared by as much as six times since the box terminal commissioning, to 320,000 tons.
Total throughput of JSC Sea Port St. Petersburg after its merger with First, Second and Third Stevedoring Companies was over 5.4 million tons of cargo, 7 percent more than aggregated throughput of the three stevedores for Jan-Sept, 2010.
Handling of rolling cargo at the Group’s Ro-Ro facility soared 50 percent to 736,000 tons. The car terminal offloaded 32,872 autos, a fourfold growth from last year's figures.
In the reporting period, Fourth Stevedoring Company traffic volumes slumped by 38% to 1.5 million tons since the company reduced coal handling. Boxes volume of FSC’ container terminal totaled 58,737 TEUs.
Ust-Luga Multipurpose Transshipment Terminal handled some 1.7 million tons of different cargoes, a 7% gain year-on-year.
Sea Port St. Petersburg (part of UCLH) is the largest group of stevedoring companies in the North-West of Russia. The group specializes in handling all types of dry cargo, containers, reefer and Ro-Ro cargoes, vehicles, metals and coal. The Group integrates JSC Sea Port St. Petersburg, JSC "Fourth Stevedoring Company, LLC Multipurpose Transshipment Complex in Ust-Luga, and a few service companies. In 2010, Sea Port St. Petersburg Group handled 12.1 million tons of cargo.