Upon the order of RF Federal Tax Service (FTS), hinterland terminal of Shushary (operated by Logistics-Terminal CJSC – part of National Container Company) is included into the area of Baltic Customs’ operations, NCC press center reports. Thus, a unique project is given a start – sea and hinterland terminals (First Container Terminal and Shushary terminal) are for the first time to be within the area of operations of one customs body. It will enable transportation of containers from the port according to an internal customs transit procedure, simplified execution of documents based on information available at the sea terminal at the moment a container is unloaded from a vessel - freight manifest and bill of lading (upon customs supervision).
The capacity of First Container Terminal is to be increased due to introduction of the new hinterland terminal. Containers delivered from the port to Shushary by railway and motor transport will then be handed over to customers.
The launch of the terminal is scheduled for early 2009. NCC started the construction in September 2007.
Major design characteristics:
Total area - 92 hectares, the land is owned by the company
Area of temporary storage warehouse – 10,000 m2
Capacity of a container ground – 10,000 TEU of loaded containers and 4,500 TEU of empty containers.
Annual capacity – 200,000 TEU
Distance from First Container Terminal – 17 km
Distance from Ust-Luga container terminal – 161 km
Distance from Moscow– 620 km
National Container Company (NCC) is the leading Russian operator of container terminals. It holds leading position at the market of stevedoring services. NCC is owned in equal shares by First Quantum and FESCO transport group (FESCO’s control stock is owned by Industrial Investors Group). NCC assets include:
- First Container Terminal (port of St. Petersburg, leader at the market of container cargo transshipment in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries, capacity – 1.1 million TEU per year with a perspective expansion to 1.6 million TEU per year);
- Nodal Transporting and Forwarding Company of Novorossiysk (NUTEP, port of Novorossiysk, current capacity of 150 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 500 thou TEU);
- Iljichevsk container terminal (Ukraine, current capacity of 850 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 4 million TEU);
- Baltic Container Terminal in Ust-Luga (design capacity of up to 3 million TEU). It’s a large-scale project on construction of a container terminal to be implemented within the framework of a Public-Private Partnership. It is part of a group of projects aimed at construction of a multifunctional port at the mouth of the Luga-river;