National Container Company (NCC) has managed to overcome negative trends caused by the economic crisis, NCC Vice President says.
According to him, it should be attributed mainly to the growing traffic of export cargo being handled by the Group’s terminals as well as to attraction of new customers.
“High level of operational management and stable image of NCC terminals as the most efficient and well equipped ones enable the company to increase its share in total container throughput of Russian seaports. One of the main requirements for the company’s market stability is long-term relationships with customers based on mutual trust and common understanding of the current market environment,” NCC release reads.
As it was reported earlier, NCC terminals increased their throughput by 7.5% in May 2009 (year-on-year) to 100,720 TEU.
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). In 2008, NCC terminals handled over 1.7 mln TEU. 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, portNovorossiysk, current capacity of 150 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 550 thou TEU); of
- 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;