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TEU at Moby Dik, Saint TEU in Vostochniy. However, What happened in the last two handling equipment deployed at
Petersburg (Kronstadt); and, on the from the perspective of February months of 2008 can be interpo- the facility.
RFE range, up by 14% to 348,333 2009, these figures are deceptive. lated from GPI’s report for 2008.
Total container throughput went Balancing act
Baltic shipping moves
up by 22.4% to 1.326M TEU (in- “Opening of the additional CY
cluding the Finnish facilities in will increase the port’s overall
Helsinki and Kotka under the throughput capacity and perfectly
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics The right vessel has been
Multi-Link Terminals banner). balance Petrolesport’s quayside
(WWL) has chosen Gothen- found in the ice-classed, 1993-
Traffic at PLP increased by 44.4% and hinterland capacities,” said
burg as the transhipment port for built 16,940 dwt vessel
to 532,000 TEU. Hence in the past Alexander Ignatenko, GPI’s COO.
VINNI,
cars and other vehicles destined which has a capacity of 1400
two months of the year the facil- “Currently around 27.7 hectares
for the Russian market. A new CEU. The vessel has plenty of
ity handled 80,400 TEU. are dedicated to container storage
weekly servivce has commenced capacity for high and heavy loads
For Moby Dik, the figure for in Petrolesport.”
between Gothenburg, Kotka in as well as cars. It has three ro-ro
2008 was 219,000 TEU (+ 7.2% This rubs home the point that
Finland and Saint Petersburg. decks with a height of up to
on 2007), which means that just PLP has a better quay:backlands
“This is extremely positive 5.6m as well as car decks. The
26,000 TEU were handled in ratio than FCT and has therefore
for the Port of Gothenburg and stern ramp is 9m wide and has a
November and December. Simi- been less prone to congestion.
reinforces our position as the capacity of 120t.
larly, VSC Vostochniy handled Both operators have been playing
gateway to Russia and other
401,000 TEU in 2008 (+ 8%), catch up, however, because of the
Baltic countries,” said Magnus Lo-lo loops
which translates into 52,667 TEU sharp growth in Russian contain-
OMG says it is close to finalising the €115M Vyborg loan deal with EBRD
Kårestedt, the port’s CEO. A new customer for Goth-
during November and December. erised imports in the past few years
WWL will use the port to enburg is OOCL, which is start-
through terminals that were never Petersburg is the off-dock logis- sequently it became part of the N-
reload cars, trucks, agricultural ing a weekly Hamburg feeder
Baltpole extension built with containers in mind. tics terminal in Yanino. trans and Container Finance joint
machinery and construction loop deploying the 868 TEU
In line with its development pro- Customs delays, the high dwell venture that also includes Multi-
equipment shipped from the
gramme, PLP has just commis- times demanded by importers and Finnish initiatve Link in Finland and Moby Dik.
OOCL NEVA and OOCL NARVA, call-
USA and Asia to Gothenburg on ing Gothenburg, then Klaipeda
sioned an additional storage yard forwarders, congestion on the rail This was originally a The US$70M terminal is due
its LCTCs, which can carry up and Saint Petersburg, followed
facility of 5 hectares. The new fa- and road approaches, etc, have all Containerships/Container Fi- to open in 2010. It can support
to 8000 CEU. The carrier pre- by Rauma and Gävle on the way
cility is located at Baltpole (Volny aggravated the situation over the nance Oy project and as such it the transit role of Kotka as well as
viously used ports in Germany back. It provides Gothenburg
Island) on the site of a former scrap years, as has been well-docu- was approved by the Russian au- GPI’s marine facilities in Saint
and Belgium to tranship for the with another direct link to the
metal yard. It can store up to 4000 mented. But this is why purspoe- thorities in 2006. However, sub- Petersburg. a74
Russian market. Russian market.
TEU of empty containers, or built facilities such as ULCT or
Kristofer Andrén, managing Finally, Containerships has
other cargo as required. the future terminal at Lomonosov
director of WWL Gothenburg, announced a new weekly serv-
To ensure efficient EC han- mark such an important stage in
dling, four Kalmar front end load- the development of container
Kiel for Baltic lo-lo
said: “This is a key development ice linking Riga and Klaipeda
in establishing Gothenburg as a with Aarhus. A 900 TEU vessel
ers have been purchased and put handling in Russia.
BTKI Baltic Terminal Kiel In- crane, with a maximum capac-
gateway for cars, agricultural and will operate this new service,
into operation, joining existing The next step for GPI in Saint
ternational GmbH enters the ity of 140t, that will operate in
construction equipment from which will also call at Teesport
NCC’s NUTEP container terminal in the Port of Novorossiysk was hit last
container handling business this the Ostuferhafen where BTKI
Asia and North America des- and Rotterdam before sailing
year by the loss of MSC’s business to the rival NLE facility
month, when the first shipments is based. The company already
tined for Finland and Russia.” back to Riga. The service is in of containerised ferrochrome, handles large volumes of forest
In this difficult time for car addition to the Aarhus, Gdansk, for use in the steel industry, ar- products, steel, project cargoes
carriers, WWL is looking for Södertälje, Saint Petersburg and rive in the port. Around 400,000 and some containers.
savings by using Gothenburg as Helsinki service. tpa, equivalent to 20,000 TEU/ BTKI has also just taken de-
a regional hub. The big ships can “Not only can we now offer year, is being shipped from livery of new Kalmar reach
get closer to final destination a fast, reliable alternative to the Kazakhstan via Latvian ports. stackers to improve its container
while the single feeder service ferries from Denmark to the Handling capacity is being handling. “In the present eco-
is more cost-effective. UK, but we can now also offer a increased in the port, which nomic situation it is important
WWL says that it faced a Baltic States gateway for Rus- handled 4.9 Mt in 2008, mainly for us to diversify into the lo-lo
challenge finding the right kind sian cargoes from the Danish in connection with ferry links container business,” said Dr Dirk
of vessel, due to ice conditions market,” said Siguröur Orri with Norway, Sweden, Russia Claus, managing director of
in Saint Petersburg in the win- Jónsson, Containerships’ direc- and the Baltic Republics. Two Seehafen Kiel GmbH & Co KG.
ter and the limited availability of tor for Denmark. Riga will be older port cranes in the city port He is also lobbying the federal
berths in the port for some kinds used for access to Central Asia area have been sold and replaced government for improvements
of ro-ro vessels, as well as the markets and Klaipeda for access with a new G HMK 7608 in the port’s inland transport
commodity mix. to Belarus and Ukraine. a74 model Gottwald mobile harbour connections. a74
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