Vostochnaya Stevedoring Co. adds yet another RMG 40 to its crane fleet

]]Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (JSC VSC) has put into service at its container terminal new RMG 40 crane manufactured by Kranunion's KOCKS Krane GmbH, Germany, the terminal operator said.

The newly commissioned RMG crane with single lifting capacity of 40 tonnes and hoisting height, max. of 11.5 m features high performance, low operating costs and low energy consumption. Span - 18.75 m, cantilever height - 13 m.

This is the eighth RMG added to the VSC's own handling equipment fleet unloading / loading container trains on its on-dock railyard capable of accommodating 266 cars.

Equipment procurement program is implemented within investment program of Global Ports. The investment program for 2014 approved by the Board of Directors of Global Ports is estimated at about $ 66 million.

Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company LLC is the largest container terminal in the Far East Region of the Russian Federation. It operates on the territory of Vostochny Port. VSC is a part of Global Ports group. The terminal’s total capacity is 550,000 TEUs.

Global Ports Investments PLC is the leading operator of container terminals in the Russian market.
Global Ports’ terminals are located in the Baltic and Far East Basins, key regions for foreign trade cargo flows. Global Ports operates five container terminals in Russia (Petrolesport, First Container Terminal, Ust-Luga Container Terminal and Moby Dik in the St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga port cluster, and Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company in the Vostochny Port) and two container terminals in Finland (Multi-Link Terminals Helsinki and Multi-Link Terminals Kotka). Global Ports Group also owns Yanino Logistics Park and inland Logistika-Terminal, both located in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, and 50% of the major oil product terminal, AS Vopak E.O.S., in Estonia. Global Ports is developing under strategic partnership of N-Trance and APM Terminals, which is part of APMoller-Maersk A/S.

Global Ports’ major shareholders are Transportation Investments Holding Limited (operating under the brand name of N-Trans), one of the largest private transportation and infrastructure groups in Russia (30.75%), and APM Terminals B.V. (30.75%).