The container throughput of Russian ports has grown by 1.4% in 2016, up to 3.99 mln TEU, reported the Association of Russian sea commercial ports. This is seen as a promising recovery after the last year’s fall by 25,4%. It may be reminded that the major drop in 2015 happened in imports (-28.5%), due to […]
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New container terminals report from Drewry
Last week Drewry held a webinar called “Key trends and developments in the global ports and terminals market” presented by Neil Davison, Drewry’s Senior Analyst, Ports and Terminals. At the webinar Mr. Davidson introduced a new “Ports & Terminals Insight” report which is intended to be issued quarterly and to become complementary to Drewry’s annual terminal […]
CTSP container terminal #1 in Russia
International transportation group UCL Holding owning a number of Russian stevedoring companies in the ports of St. Petersburg, Ust-Luga, Taganrog and Tuapse, announced its 2016 results. According to the company’s press release, the total handled volume increased by 3%, up to 34.1 mln tons, the growth explained by a huge leap by 41% of containerized […]
Russian ports grew 6.7% in 2016
The total throughput of Russian ports in 2016 reached 721.9 mln tons, which is 6.7% higher than in 2015, announced the Association of Russian sea ports. The ports handled 386.1 mln tons of liquid cargos (+5.9% to 2015), mostly crude oil (228 mln tons, +12.8%) and 335.8 mln tons of dry cargos (+7.5%). The major […]
Russian container ports: new normal
The container throughput of Russian ports dropped by 0.7% in the first 9 months of 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015, according to the data published by the Association of Russian sea ports. In January-September, 2016 Russian ports handled 2.94 mln TEU, which can be considered stabilization after a drastic drop of 26% […]
Drewry presents its 2016 Container Terminal Operators research
On October, 18th Drewry held a webinar on the Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review recently released by the company and now presented by Neil Davison, Senior Analyst, Ports and Terminals. The report, published annually for the last 14 years, provides comprehensive and enhanced analysis of terminal operators’ activity and has become an industry “bible”. […]
Container port productivity shows no sign of improvement
The productivity at the top 30 global container ports increased by only 2% between the first half of 2014 and the same period of 2016, writes IHS Fairplay. The study carried out by CTI Consultancy is based on port call data from 74% of the world’s container fleet operators and ship tracking satellite data by […]
Russian container ports stabilize after a last year shock
The volume of containers handled by Russian ports has finally stabilized after the crisis of year 2015, when it collapsed by 26%. According to the data published by the Association of Russian sea ports, in January-August of 2016 the total container throughput has reached 2.6 mln TEU, which is just 0.7% below the last year’s […]