SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

POrTS & MAriTiMe lOGiSTiCS
Big plans
in Big Port
of St Petersburg
The bulk terminal in Ust-luga. Ust-luga doubled handling throughput, reaching 4.4 million tons
in January–August 2007.
The stevedores operating in the Big
port of St Petersburg handled 39.43
million tons during the fi rst eight
months of 2007. This is a 12.7 per cent plus
year on year. Containerised cargoes were
up by 13.5 per cent to 11 million tons,
refrigerated cargoes up by 13.8 per cent to
2.6 million tons, mineral fertilizers up by
40.7 per cent to 4.3 million tons.
RUSSIA
Oil and products volume amounted to 9.6
million tons (+13 per cent), piece goods
to 366,400 tons (+23.2 per cent), coal and
coke to 1.7 million tons (+95.3 per cent),
grains to 443,200 tons (+77.2 per cent),
ore to 510,000 tons (+15.1 per cent). Ferrous
metals handling decreased by 10.2
per cent to 2.99 million tons, non-ferrous
metals – by 7.5 per cent to 985,900 tons,
and metal scrap – by 17.3 per cent to 1.7
million tons.
Container traffi c via St Petersburg made
1.1 million TEUs, which is 23.5 per cent
more than in January–August 2006. It is
worth noting that the fi rst million TEUs
of St Petersburg was handled in December
2005.
A new trend in St Petersburg is developing
car terminals to handle the growing
import. Traditionally, the lion’s share of
Russia’s new car import enters the country
via the border to Finland, and Finnish
ports take all the cream off this big pot of
milk. So far Russian ports have little to
offer to car importers.
In St Petersburg there are currently two
facilities operating: Onega Terminal and
Sea Fishery Port, both started the car business
quite recently. Onega served its fi rst
ship at the end of 2006, Sea Fishery Port in
June this year. By the end of 2007 Onega
is to expand the terminal capacity up to
120,000–150,000 units per annum. Both
the terminals handle Nissan cars, but do
not view each other as competitors:
“There are enough cars for everyone due
to the defi cit of facilities”, says Vladimir
Avigdor, MD of the Fishery Port.
Both terminals plan to expand into container
business.
Sea Port of St Petersburg, JSC, has also
voiced plans to develop a car terminal to
handle some 80,000 cars annually. The
estimated project cost is USD 5 million.
The new facility will occupy the territory
of the existing Timber Stevedoring Co,
which will be renamed Third Stevedoring
Co (the Sea Port holding already incorporates
First, Second and Fourth Stevedoring
companies).
Another new project at St Petersburg is
a dry cargo port in Lomonosov, a vicinity
of St Petersburg. At the end of September
Baltimor Concern held a presentation to
demonstrate the three berths already in
operation. Currently the company handles
timber on the berths rented from the Ministry
of Defense. By 2020 Baltimor expects
to increase the capacity up to 40 million
tons of containerized, refrigerated and gen-
66 SCAndinAViAn SHiPPinG GAZeTTe • OCTOBer 26, 2007
AlexAnder KAlinin