Container throughput of CTSP (Saint-Petersburg) down 1% to 195,300 TEUs in HI’14

In January-July 2014, Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg CJSC (CTSP) handled 195,300 TEUs (-1%, year-on-year), the terminal operator said in a press release.

According to the statement, the decrease reflects a general trend in the stevedoring market with declining import flows due to lower domestic demand and weaker rouble.

Transshipment of import containers totaled 98,300 TEUs (-4.9%, year-on-year), export – 97,000 TEUs (+2.5%, year-on-year). The share of loaded containers  increased from 19% to 35% with 34,400 TEUs of loaded export containers.

In the reported period, export accounted for 50.3%, import – for 49.7%.
 
UCL Port's Container Terminal Saint Petersburg is a JV of UCL Holding B.V. and TIL S.A. The modern facility based on the Fourth Cargo Area of Big Port St. Petersburg, specializes in handling containers and new imported vehicles. In 2013, the terminal's boxes throughput reached 396,400 TEUs.