NCSP Group reports 4.8% jump in cargo volumes

The Russian port operator and stevedoring company posted a cargo throughput of 127.9 million tons for the first 11 months of 2015, a 4.8 percent increase from the corresponding period in 2014.    The Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, a Russian port operator and stevedoring company, handled 127.9 million tons of cargo during the first 11 months of 2015, a 4.8 percent increase from the corresponding period in 2014.
   Although the group saw year-over-year increases in liquid cargo, bulk cargo and general cargo volumes during the first 11 months of 2015, container cargo volumes declined.
   A total of 99.2 million tons of liquid cargo was handled by the NCSP Group during the first 11 months of 2015, a 4.1 percent increase from the same period in the prior year.
   The NCSP Group handled 11.1 million tons of bulk cargo and 13.0 million tons of general cargo in the first 11 months of 2015, year-over-year increases of 1.0 percent and 19.4 percent, respectively.
   Container cargo volumes during this period in terms of tonnage declined 6.2 percent year-over-year to 4.7 million tons, and in terms of TEUs, volumes were down 27.6 percent year-over-year to 426,000 TEUs.
   The NCSP Group, which includes specialized stevedoring companies that operate at ports in the Azov-Black Sea and Baltic basins, operates the Port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, the Port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea and the Port of Baltiysk in Kaliningrad.