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74 St Petersburg Throughput: 1,341,850teu


(-32.3%)


Russia’s leading seaport saw volumes plummet by 32.3% year-on-year, handling 641,260teu fewer containers than in 2008. Constantza was the only major port to see a greater decline in percentage terms, down 57%. The largest container terminal operator, National


Container Company (NCC), saw its throughput at St Petersburg’s First Container Terminal (FCT) fall by only 12.4% in 2009, down to 938,931teu. Market share was gained from all other terminals partly due to improved efficiencies and partly because FCT is no longer congested. FCT’s traffic in December grew by 0.7%, compared to


the same month in 2008, signalling a recovery from the worst of the recession in Russia. Indeed, the operator recorded a 31% rise in throughput to 352,720teu for the period January-April 2010, compared to the same period last year. Moreover, April statistics for FCT are even more impressive, with a 36.6% hike to 96,817teu. Although Russia’s mighty import traffic is expected to return to double-digit growth for full-year 2010, other


non-Russian Baltic ports may begin it give St Petersburg a run for its money when Russia’s much-postponed Customs regime change occurs on 1 November this year. International Transport Holding UCLH, which has


developed the New Container Terminal facility in the fourth cargo area of the port, last year took delivery of 12 Kalmar-designed TR618i terminal tractors and one DCF 90-45E7 empty container handler.


75 Freeport Bahamas Throughput: 1,323,000teu


(-22.1%)


Mediterranean Shipping Company’s flirtation with Freeport’s rivals in the Caribbean and Central American transhipment market, such as Balboa and Cartagena, dented the Bahamian port’s throughput figures in 2009. At the end of 2008, the world’s second largest shipping


line, which owns 49% of Freeport Container Terminal, together with Hutchison Port Holdings, was forced to diversify its regional transhipment operations when the line stretched the outer limits of the port’s capacity. The carrier is now more active in Cartagena and Balboa with regular mainline calls at both ports. The sharp decline in 2009 has pushed back a


US$250m phase 5 expansion plan, originally due to be completed by the end of this year. The phase 5 expansion includes the addition of six


more gantry cranes, 21 straddle carriers and 10 automated stacking cranes. These are in addition to the 15 straddles already commissioned. An extra 500 metres of quay and 5.7ha of additional stacking area are also being developed, taking capacity from 1.7m teu to 2.2m teu.


August 2010


Upon completion, the transhipment facility will have a


quayline totalling 1,536 metres with a draught of 15.5 metres alongside, a yard area of 63ha and 16 super post-panamax quay cranes. One of the 10 existing post-panamax gantry cranes, though, was destroyed by a hurricane at the end of March 2010. Ships of up to 6,750teu capacity call at the port,


although MSC’s newbuilding deliveries, combined with the opening of a widened Panama Canal in 2014, will see vessels up to 12,500teu accommodated.


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