OREANDA-NEWS. October 5, 2009. Petrolesport OJSC (St. Petersburg, part of Global Ports) is included into a schedule of Maersk Line. Petrolesport is the second stevedoring company in the Big Port of St. Petersburg to accept the global carrier’s vessels arriving from the port of Rotterdam, press center of N-Trans Group states.

The first vessel, the 1,678-TEU Maersk Valletta was handled by Petrolesport on October 3. The vessels of Maersk Line will call on Petrolesport terminal on a weekly basis.

В настоящее время на терминале ОАО "Петролеспорт" работают следующие контейнерные линии: APL Liner Agencies, Delta Marine Ltd, Evergreene Marine (UK) Ltd, FESCO ESF Ltd, Maersk, MSC. S.A., OOCL (EUROPE) Ltd, Samskip Russia Gmbh, Uab Sea Connect, Swan Container Line Gmbh & CO. KG, Team Lines Deutscland Gmbh & CO. KG, Unifeeder A/S, W.E.C. Lines B.V., X-Press Container Line (UK) Ltd.

Petrolesport OJSC is a stevedoring company of the Big Port of St. Petersburg. PLP handles wide range of cargoes (refrigerated, ro-ro, timber and general cargo) being a leader in container transshipment in the North-West region of Russia. The company’s major shareholder is Global Ports Group (part of N-Trans Group).

Global Ports Investments Plc. is a leading container and oil products terminal operator in Russia and the Baltics. The Group is owned by N-Trans, the largest private transportation and infrastructure group in Russia.

The Group’s terminals are located in the Baltic and Far East basins and constitute key gateways for Russian container imports and exports and oil products exports GPI operates three container port facilities in Russia (including Petrolesport and Moby Dik in St. Petersburg and VSC in Nakhodka), two container terminals in Finland, the largest independent oil products terminal in the Baltic (Vopak E.O.S.) and is developing one inland terminal (Yanino) in the St. Petersburg region. The Group handled over 31% of total Russian Sea ports container throughput and 32% of Russian fuel oil exports in 2008.

Maersk Line is the largest container ship operator with subsidiaries and offices in more than 130 countries worldwide.