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KSK set seasonal record for grain transshipment

KSK, a part of DeloPorts, a stevedore asset of Delo Group, set a seasonal record for grain handling with 5.196 million tons of grain handled in the 2020/2021 season. This is 305 thousand tons more than the previous record for the 2017 season / 2018.

Over the period since the previous record, KSK Grain Terminal, operating in conditions of serious competition and reconstruction of its facilities, has significantly increased its share in the transshipment market. Now it has 24.7% (2017/2018 season - 20.6%) among the TOP-5 grain terminals in Russia, 13.2% (11.3%) - in the Azov-Black Sea region and 11.6% (9, 3%) - in the total volume of transshipped export grain. At the end of 2020, KSK set a personal annual record, handling 5.1 million tons.

Commenting on the achievement, Igor Yakovenko, Chief Executive Officer of DeloPorts, noted: «We consider this and other records of KSK as a direct result of the efforts and investments aimed at an increase of volume of transshipped and income. In a week, deep-water berth No. 40A will be put into operation, the design capacity of the terminal will increase to 7 million tons per year. The reconstruction of KSK is going on. Today we build the terminal for tomorrow. It’s for tomorrow competition challenges, for necessities of a tomorrow market. Towards new records and new higher indicators are waiting for us».

 

About the Company

DeloPorts is a holding company that owns and operates stevedore assets of Delo Group in the port of Novorossiysk. DeloPorts consolidates NUTEP Container Terminal, KSK Grain Terminal and Delo Service Company.

Delo Group is the largest transport and logistics holding in Russia, managing sea container terminals in the Azov-Black Sea, Baltic and Far Eastern basins, a network of railway container terminals, a fleet of containers and fitting platforms. The parent company of the Group is LLC MC Delo, 70% owned by the founder of the Group, Sergey Shishkarev, and 30% is owned by State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.

The Group's stevedoring business includes DeloPorts holding and Global Ports, a leading container terminal operator. The transport and logistics business of the Group is made up of the multimodal transport operator Ruscon and the intermodal container operator TransContainer that owns and operates the largest fleet of containers and flatcars over the entire 1520 standard railway network.

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