Throughput of Tuapse Commercial Seaport down 3% to 3.3 mln t in QI'14

In January-March 2013, Tuapse Commercial Seaport OJSC handled 3.3 mln t of cargo (-3%, year-on-year), the company’s press center says.

According to the statement, the negative dynamics should be attributed to the 20-pct decrease in transshipment of oil cargo to 1.8 mln t because of the redirection of export crude flow and unfinished reconstruction of Tuapse refinery. 

From the beginning of the year, transshipment of dry cargo climbed by 28% to 1.6 mln t driven by increased grain shipments (4.9 times to 0.4 mln t). 

Coal transshipment declined by 9% to 0.6 mln t, export of ferrous metal climbed by 8% to 0.4 mln t.

Transshipment of export cargoes (97% of all operations) declined by 5% to 3.2 mln t.

Import climbed by 104% to 0.13 mln t with raw sugar accounting for some 80%.

In the 3-month period, the port handled 194 cargo vessels (77 dry cargo carriers and 117 liquid bulk cargo carriers) and 23,000 railcars.

Tuapse Commercial Seaport OJSC is the main operator at the port of Tuapse, one of Russia’s largest ports. It is a part of UCL Port, stevedoring division of international transport group UCL Holding. UCL Port also consolidates OJSC Sea Port St. Petersburg, CJSC Container Terminal Saint Petersburg, Universal Handling Terminal LLC based in North-West of Russia, and Taganrog port in the South. In 2013, the port handled 12.3 mln t of cargo.