Half-year cargo throughput of Ust-Luga operator MRC soars 41% to 2.78 million tonnes
Multipurpose Reloading Complex LLC (MRC), a UCL Holding's stevedore company operating at the Port of Ust-Luga, in the first half of 2017 handled more than 2,78 million tonnes of cargo, which represents a 41% growth, the company said Thursday in a press release.
The dramatic growth was driven by a 50-percent increase in thermal coal exports (2,756 million tonnes). Also the facility handled 26,000 tonnes of petcoke, a new export cargo for MRC.
The growing traffic is handled thanks to enhanced processing of coal gondolas and overall productivity growth. MRC has implemented a program for upgrade of the existing equipment and purchase of new equipment. The latest acquisition are two LIEBHERR A 934 C units. The equipment is intended for handling export coal.
In the reporting period average handling of railcars at the MRC terminal leaped by 58% and amounted to 215 units, the maximum by 5.7% to 316 gondola cars a day.
In the six-month period the MRC facility handled 38,846 gondola cars and 66 dry bulk carries.
Multipurpose Reloading Complex LLC (MRC, part of UCL Port, a stevedoring division of UCL Holding) is a dedicated facility based in the Port of Ust-Luga, Leningrad region. MRC specializes in handling and storage of exported and imported general and dry bulk cargo. The terminal operator's primary cargo is thermal coal exported from Russia. In 2016, freight throughput of MRC totaled 4.5 million tonnes.
