In January-December 2016, Tuapse Commercial Seaport (UCL Holding) handled 14.1 mln t of cargo (-4%, year-on-year), the Company’s press center says.
The decrease of cargo traffic should be attributed to reduction in exports of oil products and imports of raw sugar, fruits and vegetables.
Grain transshipment totaled 1.86 mln t (+3.5% year-on-year), coal – 2.92 mln t (+3.3%), ferrous metal – 2.25 mln t (+8.1%). The decline in exports of slabs (-2.3%) was compensated by supplies of new cargo: steel workpiece (185,000) and rolled wire (18,800 t), as well as by considerable growth of steel coil shipments (+61.8%).
Exports that make 100% of the Company’s cargo flow fell by 6.5% to 10 mln t. Transshipment of coastal trade cargo totaled 56,830 t (unique operations on accepting crude oil delivered by tankers and pumping of it to the tanks of Tuapse Refinery in March 2016).
Transshipment of oil products totaled 7.05 mln t (-8.5%, year-on-year). Termination in transshipment of oil products in February-March due to scheduled maintenance at Tuapsenefteproduct was partly compensated in December (+40.6% against December 2015).
Exports that make the bulk of the Company’s cargo flow (99.8%) fell by 2.7% to 14.02 mln t. Imports plunged by 92.9%.
In January-December 2016, the port handled 642 vessels (286 dry cargo ships and 356 tankers) and 103,900 rail cars.
OJSC Tuapse Commercial Seaport (TCSP) is the major operator at the port of Tuapse, one of Russia’s largest ports. TCSP is part of UCL Port, a stevedoring division of international transport group UCL Holding. UCL Port comprises OJSC Sea Port St. Petersburg, CJSC Container Terminal Saint Petersburg, Universal Handling Terminal LLC based in North-West of Russia, and Taganrog port in the South. In 2015, Tuapse Commercial Seaport handled 14.7 mln t of cargo.