OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2011. The specialists of JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (“SPSPb”) together with the employees of “Universal Forwarder” successfully reloaded heavy-lift import equipment – two rolls for steel rolling mill with the weight of 227 tons each. Cargo was delivered from Hamburg on the board of the vessel “Captain Kuroptev”.

One roll was reloaded from the vessel to the special railway platform at the berth 39, the second roll was reloaded on auto trailer by the floating crane “Bogatyr” with the capacity up to 300 tons.

The first roll was transported along the railway road to Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the second roll was transported by trucks to Kolpino, to affiliate of JSC “Severstal”. Transportation of the cargo to final destinations was performed by “Universal Forwarder”.

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“Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (part of Universal Cargo Logistics Holding) – is the largest group of stevedoring companies at the North-West of Russia. It handles all types of dry cargoes; operates by modern specialized terminals for handling of container, reefer, ro-ro cargoes, cars, metals and coals. The group of companies JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” includes CJSC “Fourth Stevedoring Company”, LLC “Multipurpose Reloading Complex” in Ust-Luga and a number of service companies. In 2010 the turnover of the group of companies “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” amounted to 6.8 mln. tons of cargoes.

LLC “Universal Forwarder” (part of International transportation group Universal Cargo Logistics Holding) arranges handling operations and forwarding of cargoes in sea and river ports of Russia, CIS and Europe and performs  multimodal and mixed transportation, charter of sea and river vessels, works as vessel agent in Azov and Black Seas’  basin. The company has wide affiliated network in Russia.

JSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is one of the largest manufacturers of steel. Assets of the company in Russia include big metallurgical complex with full production cycle, starting from preparation of iron ore raw materials to deep processing of ferrous metals.

Cherepovets Iron and Steel “Sevestal” – is the company with the full technological cycle, including coke-chemical, agglomerative, blast-furnace, steelmaking and mill productions. It is one of the largest and most modern companies in the world producing ferrous metals.