First Container Terminal (St. Petersburg)

The first dedicated container terminal in the Leningrad Trading Seaport was established in December, 1973. Over the period of 35 years from this date container transportation has acquired priority significance in the international cargo handling market, and FCT became the largest terminal of the Seaport of Saint-Petersburg. In October, 1998 ZAO "First Container Terminal" (FCT) was founded as a stevedoring company specialized in container handling to operate and develop the container terminal in the 3rd cargo district of the Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg.

FCT is the leader of container handling among the terminals in Russia and the Baltic Sea Region. FCT is linked to the largest European ports by means of an extensive feeder network - Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Antwerp. FCT’s reefer plug capacity is one of the largest in Europe. The terminal has an EDI connection.

Terminal facilities:

Total area - 89 ha
Quay length (operational / total) - 780m / 1,058m
Depth alongside berth - 11,5m
Yard storage capacity - 29,500 TEU
Reefer storage capacity – 2,700 plugs
Throughput capacity – 1,100,000 TEU per year

The terminal is equipped with modern efficient handling equipment:

10 STS Panamax cranes (Konecranes) with lifting capacity up to 50 tons
1 mobile crane (Liebherr) with lifting capacity 104 tons
3 RMG cranes (Baltkran) with lifting capacity up to 45 tons
12 RTG cranes (Kalmar, Konecranes) with lifting capacity up to 50 tons
35 Straddle Carriers
The fleet of reachstackers, empty-handlers, terminal tractors

World leading shipping lines call at FCT on a regular weekly basis: Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, OOCL, APL, Unifeeder, Team Lines, FESCO ESF, Swan CL.

Availability of an extensive common feeder network linking FCT with major European ports of transshipment allows for presence of other deep sea carriers who do not have their own feeder connection with St. Petersburg: APL, China Shipping, CSAV, Hapag Lloyd, Hamburg Sud, Hanjin, Evergreen, Cosco, HMM UASC, SCI, PIL, Yang Ming, K-Line, NYK Line, MOL, ZIM, MISC.

The implementation of FCT’s expansion and development investment program boosted its throughput capacity from 150,000 TEU in 1998 to 890,000 TEU in 2006. In June 2006 a new FCT’s Investment Program that envisages further growth of throughput capacity up to 1.6M by 2012 was approved.

The increase of throughput capacity will be achieved by means of partial replacement of straddle carrier based handling system with an RTG/TT technology which will eventually pay off in higher density of storage per ground slot. Another key element of the terminal’s expansion program is continual procurement of more productive and modern STS cranes, aimed to enhance berth productivity.