St Petersburg to ‘relocate’
NewsThe entire city cargo port facilities of the Port of St Petersburg could be transferred to Bronka, in the outer port zone, where Fenix Inves...
A hive of activity in Russia
NewsRussia’s container throughput has risen sharply this year, and there are several ‘buying and selling’ initiatives in the container han...
Baltic operators plough on
NewsThe Russian economy, low oil prices and sanctions have continued to affect traffic levels this year, but there are several new initiatives i...
Global Ports reports 22% fall in throughput
NewsRussia's biggest container handler says its container throughput fell by 22% in H1 2016 year-on-year, to 647,000 TEU...
Battling to get up off the floor
NewsThere are signs of a slow recovery in the Eastern Baltic container market....
Tense times in the Baltic
NewsNew investments have come on stream, but a downturn in Russian container trades is clearly on the cards....
Russian port investments proceed
NewsA number of important port development projects, including expansions and entirely new port complexes, are underway or planned in the Baltic...
Global Ports to acquire NCC
NewsAs forecast in the June 2013 issue of WorldCargo News (p1), Global Ports Investments (GPI), in which APM Terminals (APMT) and Russia’s N-t...
Global Ports to acquire NCC
NewsPractically all Russia's container handling capacity in the Russian Baltic will be concentrated in Global Ports Investments' hands...
Running before you can walk?
NewsContainer business is still on a strong upward curve in Russia’s sea ports, but given the scale of planned investments, will there be enou...
New Russian ship type
NewsRussia’s Nevsky Shipbuilding and Shiprepair plant in Shlisselburg, in Leningrad region, has built a new type of fluvio-maritime bulk carri...
UCL Holding set for St Petersburg boost
NewsCapacity at Container Terminal Saint Petersburg is slated to increase to 1.2M TEU a year in the next few years...
TIL buys into Saint Petersburg
NewsTerminal Investment Ltd, the acquisitive Dutch-based company closely linked to MSC, has acquired 20% of SP Container Terminal Ltd from UCL H...