Russian container market could grow 60% by 2013 - Drewry
Russia's container transport market has the potential to grow 60 percent from 2010 to 2013 with container throughput increasing to 6,900 million TEUs, according to research firm Drewry, Cargonews Asia reports.In 2010, cargo turnover totalled 4.1 million TEUs, and has grown on average 18.6 percent per year from 2000 to 2010. Growth in the world market for container cargo turnover was 8.6 percent in the same period.
The average figure for container throughput in 2010 almost reached pre-crisis levels of 2008 handling around 307,000 TEU every month. However, throughput statistics for the first four months of 2011 show that this figure is about 353,000 TEU every month, thus beating the pre-crisis levels.
By 2020, Russian ports will be handling more than 12.5 million TEUs, the experts projected.
The main container stevedore in Russia last quarter was the group Gobal Ports (part of N-Trans) with a share of 30 percent. National Container Company LLC was left with 26 percent of the market, followed by the group Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) with 15 percent and FESCO with nine percent.
According to Drewry, the port of St Petersburg is 62nd on the list of largest container ports in the world. The ports at Novorossiysk, Vladivostok, Vostochny, and Kaliningrad are under 150 on that list.
Most the containers handled in Russia ports were in the Baltic Sea (68 percent), the Far East (19 percent), the Black Sea (11 percent), and the North Sea (thre percent).
There were in 2010 opened two direct container services at the Petrolesport terminal in St Petersburg. The port served 47 percent of Russia's container market. There are two main players on the stevedore market on the Baltic market - National Stevedore Company and Global Ports.
Ports of Vladivostok and Vostochny in the Far East mainly provide local cabotage services to Primorye and Russian Far East regions as well as provide service to hinterlands further inland Russia and Central Asia via Transsib.
The market is dominated by two stevedoring companies: FESCO with 44 percent market share and Global Ports with 33 percent share. By 2013, Drewry projects a shortage of container handling capacity in this direction.
The average figure for container throughput in 2010 almost reached pre-crisis levels of 2008 handling around 307,000 TEU every month. However, throughput statistics for the first four months of 2011 show that this figure is about 353,000 TEU every month, thus beating the pre-crisis levels.
By 2020, Russian ports will be handling more than 12.5 million TEUs, the experts projected.
The main container stevedore in Russia last quarter was the group Gobal Ports (part of N-Trans) with a share of 30 percent. National Container Company LLC was left with 26 percent of the market, followed by the group Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) with 15 percent and FESCO with nine percent.
According to Drewry, the port of St Petersburg is 62nd on the list of largest container ports in the world. The ports at Novorossiysk, Vladivostok, Vostochny, and Kaliningrad are under 150 on that list.
Most the containers handled in Russia ports were in the Baltic Sea (68 percent), the Far East (19 percent), the Black Sea (11 percent), and the North Sea (thre percent).
There were in 2010 opened two direct container services at the Petrolesport terminal in St Petersburg. The port served 47 percent of Russia's container market. There are two main players on the stevedore market on the Baltic market - National Stevedore Company and Global Ports.
Ports of Vladivostok and Vostochny in the Far East mainly provide local cabotage services to Primorye and Russian Far East regions as well as provide service to hinterlands further inland Russia and Central Asia via Transsib.
The market is dominated by two stevedoring companies: FESCO with 44 percent market share and Global Ports with 33 percent share. By 2013, Drewry projects a shortage of container handling capacity in this direction.
