First Container Terminal (FCT, St. Petersburg) plans to raise its container throughput by 68.4% against plan for 2007 – to 1.6 million TEU per year, RBC reports quoting Egor Govorukhin, vice-President of National Container Company (owner of FCT) as saying at the IV international conference Freight-2007: Container Transportation in Russia and the Neighbouring States being held in St. Petersburg. Mr. Govorukhin also said this year the terminal is likely to handle 950,000 TEU, in 2008 – 1.1 million TEU, in 2009 – 1.4 million TEU.
First Container Terminal (FCT CJSC) is a specialized container terminal located at the port of St. Petersburg. It is managed by the National Container Company. Today FCT is the leader among the companies handling container cargoes in Russia and in the region of the Baltic Sea. FCT applies modern loading equipment for handling large containers as well as unique information system for terminal management.