In January-August, 2009, First Container Terminal (St. Petersburg, part of National Container Company) handled 575,298 TEU (-19.2%, year-on-year) including 80,957 TEU in August (+10.2% against July 2009), NCC press center reports.
In August, loading of export cargo totaled 39,625 TEU, unloading of import cargo – 41,332 TEU. Turnover of refrigerated containers amounted to 9,852 TEU.
In August the terminal handled MSC BRIANNA, the largest container carrier in its history (244 meters long). The vessel’s nominal container capacity – 3,268 TEU.
All in all the company handled 65 vessels in August with average turnover of 1,245 TEU per vessel.
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, port of Novorossiysk, current capacity of 150 thou TEU with a perspective expansion to 550 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;
- land-based logistics center and container terminal Shushary (Leningrad region) with a design capacity of up to 200 thou TEU per year at the territory of 92 hectares.