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Sea Port St. Petersburg cargo volumes up 9 percent to 7.4 mln tons

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 ...

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St. Petersburg port infrastructure development

The group of companies Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg continues to develop port infrastructure Thegroup ofcompanies "SeaPortofSaint-Petersburg"continues tomodernize cargo terminals andportinfrastructure within theimplementationoffull-scaleprogramme ofdevelopment.Inparticular, starting fromthebeginning ofthisyearthe group ofcompanies carries outworks onreconstruction ofrailway tracks andfacilities attheFirst andSecond Cargo areaoftheport. These works willsecure uninterrupted flowoftrains andmodernization ofthecranes. Itis planned thatthese works willmakeitpossible toincrease metal handling capacities oftheterminals upto500thousand tonspermonth.Additional storage capacities forimport carsandcontainers arebeing constructed attheterritory of"Fourth Stevedoring Company" (part ofthegroup ofthecompanies "Sea PortofSPb").Starting fromthebeginning of2011thegroup ofcompanies "SeaPortofSaint-Petersburg"transferred about 470mln. rubles, allinallit isplanned totransfer over1.1 bln. rubles forthese purposes.Source: UCL Holding B.V.

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