Despite the cold winter and complicated ice conditions in the first quarter of 2011, the freight turnover of the dedicated container terminal OJSC Petrolesport increased by 98% as compared to the same period of the last year and amounted to 179,085 TEUs. The volume of Ro-Ro cargo handled increased to 18,883 units of wheel-mounted vehicles (including cars), which is more than three times higher than in the first three months of 2010, when the ferry terminal of Petrolesport handled 5,488 units. By March 2010 the container turnover of Petrolesport increased by 55%, while the Ro-Ro cargo growth was 119%.
LLC Moby Dik operating in Kronshtadt handled 44,975 TEUs. As compared to January-March 2010, the container handling volume increased by 59%. Growth of results this March (+64%) was first of all due to expansion of the terminal’s customer base: new customers – Maersk Line and Unifeeder – launched regular service to Moby Dik.
Container turnover of Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company operating in the Vostochny Port increased by 70% to reach 78,320 TEUs. In early February 2011 a new regular international line of SASCO opened service to the terminal, and in late March the terminal, together with LLC T-Trans and LLC Kamchatka Lines, opened a coastal service to ship cargo from the Moscow Region to Sakhalin and Kamchatka. Finnish terminals of Global Ports, Multi-Link Terminals Oy, located in Helsinki and Kotka, handled 38,842 TEU (+ 0.1%).
?? Vopak E.O.S., the biggest terminal by cargo turnover handling petroleum products in the Baltic region, in January-March handled 4.47 mln t of oil and petroleum products, which is 9% higher than the last year results (4.10 mln t).
Global Ports Investments Plc (GPI) is the biggest Russian operator of container terminals. It is part of N-Trans group, the leading transportation and infrastructure holding with operations in Russia, CIS and the Baltic countries. The GPI’s terminals are located in the Baltic and the Far East basins. GPI operates three container terminals in Russia (Petrolesport, Moby Dik in St. Petersburg and Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company in the Vostochny Port) and two container terminals in Finland (Multi-Link Helsinki and Multi-Link Kotka). GPI is now also developing an inland terminal Yanino near Saint-Petersburg. Global Ports’ petroleum terminal Vopak E.O.S. (VEOS) is the only independent terminal of its class in the Baltic Region capable of receiving VLCC class tankers. 50% in VEOS are owned by Royal Vopak NV, a strategic partner of Global Ports. In 2010 Global Ports accounted for 27% of the total Russian container turnover and 33% of the fuel oil exports.