Total cargo throughput of JSC Sea Port St. Petersburg (MP St. Pb) in 2011 rose 9 percent
Total cargo throughput of JSC Sea Port St. Petersburg (MP St. Pb) in 2011 rose 9 percent year-on-year to 7.4 million tons of different cargoes, the company said Thursday. The growth was driven by last year’s reorganization, a merger of Sea Port St. Pb, First, Second and Third stevedore companies.
In the reporting period, the combined company handled 5.5 million tons of general cargo, up 5% from 2010’s numbers.
Shipments of rolling cargo at Sea Port St. Pb’s Ro-Ro terminal soared 40 percent to 1 million tons. The stevedore handled 47,166 imported vehicles, a threefold growth year-on-year.
Handling of dry bulk cargoes increased by 12% to 887,000 tons.The volume of outbound cargo climbed by 2 percent to 5.7 million tons with a 40-percent surge in the segment of inbound cargo, to 1.7 million tons.
SC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (included in UCL Port – part of subholding, consolidating stevedoring assets of the International transportation group UCL Holding) – is the largest operator, rendering services on handling of all types of dry cargoes in the Greater Port of Saint-Petersburg. It operates by modern specialized terminals for handling of container, reefer, ro-ro cargoes, cars and metals. In 2010 the turnover of the group of companies “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” amounted to 6.8 mln. tons of cargoes.
In 2010 the process of reorganization of JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” by joining of three joint-stock companies to it: CJSC “Third Stevedoring Company”, CJSC “Second Stevedoring Company”, CJSC “First Stevedoring Company” started. Closed joint-stock companies ceased their activities. JSC “SPSPb” became the legal successor with regard to all the rights and obligations of three companies
Source: Port News
