Kaliningrad Sea Trading Port OJSC founded Kaliningrad Stevedore Company LLC

Kaliningrad Sea Trading Port OJSC (KSTP) assigned the specialized container terminal and established Kalingrad Stevedore Company (KSC) LLC on its basis, Iterfax reports referring to the press-service of the port. "The potential cargo turnover of a new company is estimated at 200 thousand containers a year. КSC possesses 535 running meters of berthing line, 95 thousand square kilometers of opened protected warehouses and 23 thousand square meters of covered warehouses, and also a big park for special loading and unloading and crane equipment”, - the press release says. One of the main partners of KSC is sea container line Trance-Baltic Line, the general agent of which is Mann&Son Company (London, the Great Britain). Currently Trance-Baltic Line collaborates with such a large container carriers, as MSC, Hamburg Sud, APL, and also CMA-CGM, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd. "Foundation of Kaliningrad stevedore company LLC took place within the limits of the new law About a special economic zone in the Kaliningradskaya oblast, which provides serious tax preferences to the companies investments the investment volume of which is equal to more than 150 million roubles", - was mentioned in the press-service. Container terminal KSTP processed more than 44.5 thousand TEU's for 2003 (containers at a 20-foot equivalent), almost 72.5 thousand for 2004, more than 112.5 thousand TEU's for 2005 -. The main shareholders of KSTP OJSC are Dork LLC (49% shares) and GAS-OIL CJSC (12%).