Container throughput of Moby Dick terminal up 18.7% to 148,800 TEU in Jan-Aug 08

In January-August 2008, throughput of Moby Dick container terminal totaled 148,800 TEU (+18.7%, year-on-year). In August, the terminal handled 22,000 TEU (+32.5%).

Container terminal of Moby Dick LLC was put into operation in 2002. It is located in Kronshtadt on Kotlin island. In 2007, container terminal of Moby Dick LLC handled over 200,000 TEU. The terminal is owned on a parity basis by a Finnish corporation Container Finance Group and Global Ports (part of N-Trans Group).

Global Ports Investments Ltd (GPI) is one of Russia’s leading operators of container terminals.  In 2007, total throughput of GPI companies amounted to 1.1 mln TEU. Global Ports was set up by N-Trans Group through consolidation of the Group’s terminal assets for further development of port business. GPI Group comprises the terminals at the Baltic Sea and in the Far East – Petrolesport, Moby Dick, Vostochnaya Stevedore Company, Multi-Link Helsinki, Multi-Link Kotka, Vopak E.O.S,   logistic park Yanino and five inland terminals in Finland and Poland.