Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg announces its 9M’16 throughput of 417,600 TEUs, up 1.5 times Y-o-Y

In January-September 2016 JSC “Container terminal Saint-Petersburg” (CTSP, member of UCL Holding) handled 417,600 TEUs, up 1.5 times, year-on-year, says CTSP.

Import volume increased by 44% year-on-year, to 191,200 TEUs, including 37,700 TEUs of laden reefer containers.

Export volume increased by 59.9%, compared to the same period last year, to 226,400 TEUs. The share of laden export containers in overall throughput increased by 6.3% to 41.7%.

The shares of export and import in overall throughput of containers are 54.2%, and 45.8%, respectively.

In the 9-month period of 2016 CTSP handled 384 vessels with an average call size of 1,000 TEUs.

Based on the throughput results for in 9M’16, CTSP remains a leader among sea container terminals of Russia. Terminal’s market share in the ports of Saint-Petersburg and Ust-Luga is 30.6%.

Container terminal Saint-Petersburg (member of UCL Port, stevedoring division of the international transportation group UCL Holding) is a modern container handling facility in the 4^th area of the Big Port of Saint-Petersburg. In 2015 the terminal handled 398,000 TEU.