Global Ports terminals in St. Petersburg handled 27 000 cars in April-September

The terminals were not engaged in imported cars handling from 2Q 2022 through April 2023

Global Ports, a stevedoring division of Delo Group, handled 27 000 imported cars at its St. Petersburg based terminals in April-September 2023. The automobiles imported from China were delivered to Russia in containers by sea. Global Ports said there were no car imports through St. Petersburg terminals from the second quarter of 2022 through April 2023 after withdrawal of several international container and Ro-Ro fleet operators from the Russian market.

In the six-month period, 24 500 automobiles were unloaded at Great Port of St. Petersburg based marine terminals Petrolesport and First Container Terminal (PLP and FCT) of Global Ports, respectively. Another 2 500 units were handled at the Global Ports’ inland container depot Yanino Logistics Park, which is located on the border with St. Petersburg.

Global Ports is the leading container terminal operator in the Russian market. The Group owns and operates a unique network of marine container and multipurpose terminals (First Container Terminal / FCT, Petrolesport, Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company / VSC, Yanino Logistics Park, Ust-Luga Container Terminal / ULCT, Moby Dik) in two key marine container gateways. The Group’s main business is container handling. In addition, the Group handles a number of other types of cargo, including bulk, cars and other types of roll-on roll-off cargo. Overall bulk cargo throughput of Global Ports rose 13.7% to 3.6 million tonnes with container volume at 992 000 TEU in 2022. In the first six month of this year consolidated container throughput declined 22.6% to 611 000 TEU.