CJSC Fourth Stevedoring Company (4SC, member of UCLH) has officially changed its name to CJSC Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg (CTSP), the Holding said Monday.
Changing of the title is the logical step reflecting strategy of company’s development at the territory of the fourth cargo area of the Greater Port of Saint-Petersburg and respective changes in the structure of the handled cargoes, the UCLH press release said.
In the end of 2010 the first stage of container terminal was put into operation and at the moment the main cargoes handled by the company are containers. These cargoes are gradually pushing out less cost-efficient and less environmentally friendly cargoes such as mineral fertilizers, pig iron and metals from the structure of company’s turnover.
Further development of “CTSP” within the implementation of the project of construction of the second stage of the container terminal envisages prolongation of the quay line, extension of the storage areas and purchase of new equipment for handling of container cargoes. After putting into operation of the second stage of the container terminal in 2014 its capacity will amount to 1.2 mln. TEUs per year.
CJSC “Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg” (part of the group of the companies “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg”) is located at the fourth cargo area of the Greater Port of Saint-Petersburg. Terminal with the annual capacity of 500 thousand TEUs is equipped by 4 ship-to-shore (STS), 10 rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTG), lift-trucks with the lifting capacity from 3 tons and by other technological equipment. Terminal area amounts to 32 Ha, storage capacity is 14 thousand TEUs.
Container terminal has 2 railway tracks for handling of container trains. Useful length of each track amounts to 469 m, total length of each track – 700 m. Containers are delivered by railway transport via station “Avtovo”.
Terminal works with the following lines: Team Lines, APL, Sea Connect, Unifeeder, Maersk, MSC, Delta Shipping Lines.
Since October 24, 2011 the terminal works according to new technological scheme of handling of containers, which simplifies Border procedures. Reduction of work time of committee aboard the vessels allows cargo owners to decrease demurrage costs.
CJSC “Fourth Stevedoring Company” specialized in handling of loose and bulk cargoes, main type of which was coal. Gradually, since 2008 when Multipurpose Handling Terminal based in Ust-Luga was put into operation environmentally unfriendly cargoes had been removed from the territory of Saint-Petersburg.
Universal Cargo Logistics Holding (UCL Holding) is an international transportation holding company that is comprised of: stevedoring companies of Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg and Universal Handling Complex in the North-West Russia; Tuapse and Taganrog ports in the South of the country; Volga Shipping, North-West Shipping and Western Shipping companies; as well as a number of shipbuilding, shipping, railway and logistics assets.