NCSP Group
NCSP Group is the leading stevedoring operator in Russia and ranks third among European ports in terms of cargo turnover. The NCSP Group includes nine stevedoring companies of various specializations that operate in the ports of the Azov-Black Sea and Baltic basins.
NCSP Group includes the two largest ports in Russia in terms of cargo turnover - Novorossiysk on the Black Sea and Primorsk on the Baltic Sea, which provides it with a leading position in the Russian stevedoring services market.
The port of Novorossiysk is the largest port in the Azov-Black Sea Basin (ASB) and Russia.
In 2021, the cargo turnover of the port of Novorossiysk amounted to 82.0 million tons (excluding CPC volumes), including NCSP Group 61.0 million tons. NCSP Group companies account for 23.8% of the cargo turnover of all ports in the Azov-Black Sea basin of the Russian Federation (according to ASOP data).
Primorsk is the sixth Russian port in terms of cargo turnover (53.0 million tons in 2021) and ranks third among the ports of the Baltic basin of the Russian Federation. PTP LLC, a member of the NCSP Group, handles 100% of cargo in the port of Primorsk (according to ASOP data). The second port of the NCSP Group in the Baltic is the container terminal of Baltic Stevedoring Company LLC in the port of Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region, which in 2021 handled 67% of the total container turnover of the Kaliningrad region, which amounted to 293.5 thousand TEU (1.6 million tons).
Port of Novorossiysk
The port is located in the eastern part of the Black Sea on the shore of Novorossiysk (Tsemes) Bay.
Competitive advantages of the port of Novorossiysk:
- The port is located in the eastern part of the Black Sea on the shores of Novorossiysk (Tsemes) Bay. Favorable geographical location. The port is located at the intersection of international transport corridors connecting Russia with the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, North and South America;
- The only deep-water port in southern Russia. NCSP Group operates the deepest sea berths in the CIS and Baltic region: the maximum depth of oil berths is 24.5 m; berths for transshipment of bulk, general and container cargo - 14.5 m;
- Favorable natural conditions. The ice-free Tsemes Bay ensures year-round operation, and the existing fortification structures and breakwaters in the port serve as sufficient protection for facilities in the port, allowing to minimize the time of forced downtime due to weather conditions;
- Availability of a sufficient number of indoor and outdoor storage areas;
- High level of equipment with modern reloading equipment;
- Developed road, rail and pipeline infrastructure;
- The versatility of assets allows you to quickly respond to changes in the conditions of the Russian and global cargo transportation market.
Port Primorsk
The port of Primorsk is the largest Russian oil loading port in the North-West region of Russia. The port is located in the southern part of the Björkösund Strait in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea and is the end point of the Baltic pipeline system and the pipeline system of the North 25 project, through which oil is transported from the fields of the Timan-Pechersk, West Siberian and Ural-Volga regions of Russia . The total capacity of the terminal is 82 million tons per year.
Competitive advantages of the port of Primorsk:
- favorable geographical location. The port is located near the countries of Western and Northern Europe at the intersection of European foreign trade and transit cargo flows;
- favorable natural conditions provide the possibility of year-round operation of the port and navigation with a short period of ice navigation;
- sufficient natural depths;
- convenience of approaches;
- short length of the fairway;
- convenient parking for large-capacity vessels;
- modern deep-water berths;
- the maximum depth at the berths is 17.8 m;
- bunkering complex. Design capacity is 360 thousand tons of fuel oil per year.
Port Baltiysk
The port is located on the shore of the Baltic Strait, connecting the Kaliningrad (Vistula) Lagoon with the Baltic Sea, at the entrance to the Kaliningrad Sea Canal, which serves for the passage of ships from the Baltic Sea to the Kaliningrad seaport.
Competitive advantages of the port of Baltiysk:
- Favorable geographical location. The port is located in the center of the Baltic Sea near the countries of Western and Northern Europe;
- Natural depths. The port is located at the entrance to the Kaliningrad Sea Canal in its deep-water part, which allows it to receive large-capacity vessels with a permitted draft of 9.2 m;
- Favorable natural conditions. The ice-free water area ensures year-round operation of the port. Unlike the ports of Kaliningrad, the location at the entrance to the open sea creates favorable navigation conditions for linear shipping, since the need to navigate vessels through the Kaliningrad Sea Canal is eliminated;
- Availability of a sufficient number of storage areas;
- Developed transport infrastructure. The port has a developed.