History milestones

• October, 1998 - First Container Terminal (FCT) was founded as a stevedoring company to operate and develop the container terminal in the 3rd cargo district of the Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg.
• November, 2002 - First Quantum and Severstaltrans on parity basis founded National Container Company as a management company for the network of container terminals. First Container Terminal became an NCC’s asset.
• December, 2002 - National Container Company and the Delo Group started construction of the container terminal NUTEP in the port of Novorossiysk.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2002 amounted to 438,624 TEU.

• May 2003 – The Ministry of Transport of Russia, the Russian Railways, the Government of Leningrad region, Ust-Luga Company, National Container Company and the German company “Eurogate” signed an agreement for container terminal construction in Ust-Luga.
• August, 2003 – NCC purchased 50% share in Vladivostok Container Terminal.
• October, 2003 – Container Depot was branched out at First Container Terminal for storage and repair of empty containers.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2003 amounted to 522,377 TEU.

• April, 2004 – The terminal NUTEP in Novorossiysk was put into operation.
• June, 2004 – First Container Terminal put into operation information system Conterra, providing clients with opportunities to use the integrated web portal of the terminal.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2004 amounted to 957,546 TEU.

• August, 2005 – NCC entered the Ukrainian market and started the implementation of the program 4M at the terminal Ukrtranscontainer in Illichivsk.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2005 amounted to 1,067,867 TEU.

• June, 2006 – NCC developed and approved the FCT’s expansion and development program envisaging the terminal capacity growth up to 1,6 M TEU.
• December, 2006 - The shareholders of National Container Company came to the agreement concerning the assets sharing. FCT, NUTEP, Ukrtranscontainer and the brand "National Container Company" became First Quantum’s assets. The NCC’s terminals in the Far East passed into the ownership of the Severstaltrans group.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2006 amounted to 1,311,985 TEU.

• February, 2007 - The First Quantum Group and The Transport Group FESCO created a strategic partnership to operate and develop NCC’s terminals.
• April, 2007 – NCC started the construction of Ust-Luga Container Terminal.
• May, 2007 – Ukrtranscontainer was the first among the container terminals in the Former Soviet Union to accept and operate a containership with in-take capacity over 5,000 TEU as well as to implement the system of fixed berthing windows in Ukraine.
• September, 2007 - NCC started constructing works at Logistika-Terminal (Shushary, St. Petersburg).
• November, 2007 – NCC completed the first phase of the program «4М»: Ukrtranscontainer became the largest container terminal in Ukraine with the annual capacity of 850,000 TEU.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2007 amounted to 1,555,946 TEU.

• September, 2008 - Ukrtranscontainer finished introduction of IT-system Conterra.
• October, 2008 – First Container Terminal celebrated its 10th anniversary remaining the largest and the state-of-the-art terminal of Russia by technological development and client service quality.
• November, 2008 – the total volume of container handling at Ukrtranscontainer reached 500,000 TEU since the beginning of 2008. For the first time ever the terminal in Illichivsk port handled more than half a million TEU.
• December, 2008 – First Container Terminal handled 1 million TEU since the beginning of the year. For the first time ever, turnover of Russia's container terminal exceeded 1M TEU.

The throughput of NCC’s terminals in 2008 amounted to 1,736,775 TEU.