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07 Feb 2019

St Petersburg Port Cargo Handling Up by 12%

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg (CTSP), a company of UCL Port, stevedoring division of the international transportation group UCL Holding, handled 7.7 million tonnes of cargo showing a 12-pct increase versus the result of 2017.The increase of cargo traffic is attributed the development of yards dedicated for transshipment of cast iron, metal scrap, ore, mineral fertilizers and containers, said a release from the operator providing dry cargo transshipment in Saint-Petersburg port and the North-West of Russia.Total transshipment of general cargo via Sp SPb grew by 5% to 6.67 million tonnes including 3.74 million tonnes of ferrous metal. The growth of ferrous metal transshipment was driven by cast iron…

18 Jul 2015

Cargo Volumes Rise at St Petersburg

In the first half of 2015 the turnover of OJSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (SP SPb) amounted to 4.3 mln tons, which is by 5% more than the indicator of the same period during the last year. Positive dynamics was caused by growth of handling volumes of main cargoes – general cargoes, the volumes of which increased by 12% up to 3.5 mln tons. In particular, due to growth of export of Russian metallurgical companies handling volumes of steel handling volumes of ferrous metals increased up to 1.5 mln tons and exceeded by 28% the indicators of the first half of the last year. Handling of non-ferrous metals in the port increased by 24% up to 0.8 mln tons which is connected with the growth of export shipments of aluminum. Within the reporting period SP SPb handled 193 th.

17 Jun 2013

Yet More Consolidation Proposed in Russia

Ownership of selected container terminals in the Eastern Baltic (Drewry)

The prospect of Russia’s two largest container terminal operators joining forces has raised concerns over the dominant position that the combined enterprise would enjoy were the deal to be agreed. Global Ports Investments (GPI), one of the two largest players in the Russian container port market, is investigating the acquisition of a controlling stake in National Container Company (NCC), the other dominant player in the Russian market. The prospect of Russia’s two largest container…