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ULCT Handles the Second Vessel Call of the Containership Newnew Star 2

Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT, owned and managed by Global Ports marine terminal operator, part of Delo Group) handled the second call of NewNew Star 2 containership of Hainan Yangpu NewNew Shipping Co container line.

ULCT loaded on board five hundred 40-foot containers. The cargo range included export goods of the domestic timber industry: plywood, veneer, sawn timber. The vessel will proceed for unloading through the port of Alexandria and further to the China ports of Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai and Nansha (Guangzhou).

The container ship Newnew Star 2 is 231 metres long, 32.3 metres wide and has a capacity of 3,400 TEU. The vessel was partially loaded at the Big Port of St. Petersburg prior to calling at ULCT. However, due to the depth limitations of the Sea Channel, the vessel was sent to ULCT for additional loading.

In summer 2024, Ust-Luga Container Terminal increased the permissible draught at its berths to 12.6 metres in response to the trend of increasing vessel capacity in the Baltic basin. In 2024, every fourth container vessel calling at the ports of St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga have a capacity of 3,000 TEU or more.

Container handling at ULCT resumed in spring 2024 against the backdrop of an intensive recovery of container traffic in the Russian Baltic and development of direct shipping services between St. Petersburg and ports of APR countries. < Back to list