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Maersk Line Launches Service to Petrolesport
OJSC Petrolesport (“PLP”, a subsidiary of Global Ports Investments Plc) has been included into the service schedule of Maersk Line. PLP has become the second stevedoring company in the Bolshoy Port of Saint Petersburg where the vessels of the biggest world container shipping company from Rotterdam are calling.
The first vessel Maersk Valletta carrying 1,678 TEUs was handled at berths of Petrolesport on 3rd of October. Maersk Line's vessels will arrive at the PLP terminal on a weekly basis.
The following container lines now have services to the OJSC Petrolesport terminal:
APL LINER AGENCIES, DELTA MARINE LTD, EVERGREEN MARINE (UK) LTD, FESCO ESF LTD, MAERSK, MEDITERRANEAN SIPPING CO. S.A., OOCL (EUROPE) LTD, SAMSKIP RUSSIA GMBH, UAB «SEA CONNECT», SWAN CONTAINER LINE GMBH & CO. KG, TEAM LINES DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG, UNIFEEDER A/S, W.E.C. LINES B.V., X-PRESS CONTAINER LINE (UK) LTD.
05 October 2009
Background
OJSC Petrolesport (“PLP”) is the second largest stevedoring company in the St. Petersburg’s Bolshoy Port. PLP handling various kinds of cargo (containers, refrigerated, ro-ro, timber, general). PLP is one of the leading container terminals in the North West of Russia. OJSC Petrolesport is a subsidiart of the Global Ports Investments PLC.
Global Ports Investments Plc (GPI) is a group of companies that unites Russia’s leading container terminal operators and an oil/oil products terminal in Estonia. The Group is owned by N-Trans, the largest private transportation and infrastructure group in Russia. The Group’s terminals are located in the Baltic and Far East basins and constitute key gateways for Russian container imports and exports and oil products exports. GPI manages three container port facilities in Russia (including Petrolesport and Moby Dik in St. Petersburg and VSC in Nakhodka), two container terminals in Finland, and the largest independent oil products terminal in the Baltic (Vopak E.O.S.) and is developing one inland terminal (Yanino) in the St. Petersburg region. The Group handled over 30% of Russian container traffic and Russian fuel oil exports in 2008.
Maersk Line is the biggest container shipping company worldwide. It has offices in more than 130 countries of the world and operates a major fleet of container carrier vessels For more information please see: http://www.maerskline.com.