In January-December 2016, JSC Taganrog Commercial Sea Port (TagCSP, UCL Holding) handled 1.07 mln t of cargo, down 27%, year-on-year, the stevedore’s press service reported.
The report attributes the fall primarily to the crises in relations with Turkey and customs restrictions imposed on goods produced there.
Transshipment of general cargo plunged 3.5 times to 128,000 t including 83,000 t of metal and pipe products (down 5 times) and 35,000 t of cargo in big bags (down 13%).
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo dropped by 17% to 112,000 t.
Transshipment of dry bulk cargo declined by 3%, year-on-year, to 817,000 t including 599,000 t of coal (-3%), 186,000 t of grain (-6%), and 32,000 t of ore (+15%).
The company’s container throughput totaled 2,700 TEUs (14,000 t), down 39% due to reduced flow of imports.
In January-December, Taganrog Commercial Sea Port handled 924,000 t of export cargo (accounts for 86% of total throughput), 27,000 t of import cargo (3% of total throughput), 120,000 t of coastal trade cargo (11% of total throughput).
In the reporting period the company handled 13,411 rail cars and 258 vessels.
Taganrog Commercial Sea Port (part of UCL Port, a stevedoring division of UCL Holding) is the key terminal operator in the Port of Tagangor. The stevedoring company handles freight at Berths NoNo 1-5, 7 and 8. In 2015 the company handled about 1.5 million tonnes of cargo.