UCL Holding has published operational update for its stevedoring division for Q1 2018.
The aggregate throughput was 9.4 mn tons, 3.9% below the result for the same period of 2017. According to UCLH, the reason was the decline of oil and products traffic via Tuapse and Taganrog.
Dry cargo throughput grew 3% up to 7.6 mn tons. Oil and product dropped 25.4% down to 1.8 mn tons.
Export cargo made 86% of the total handling volume, down 1 percentage point. Import accounted for 13%, or 1.2 mn tons, and cabotage made just 1%.
General cargo grew the most, up 9.3% to 2.6 mn tons, mostly due to ferrous metals (up 14.5% to 1.9 mn tons) and scrap (up more than twice up to 160 thousand tons).
Containerized cargo was up 6% to 2.2 mn tons. Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg handled 168.5 thousand TEU, up 7%, while container traffic via Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg surged 40% up to 6 thousand TEU.
Solid bulk declined 4.2% down to 2.8 mn tons, mostly due to lower coal export via Tuapse and Taganrog and harsh ice conditions at Ust-Luga.
Grain export via Tuapse increased 25% up to 0.77 mn tons.