National Container Company is the container port operator of Russia. It ranks among the world's top 20containeroperators. NCC focuses on the development of container terminals at the Baltic as it is the key region for Russian container traffic bound to more than a half of Russian population and major industrial areas. Black sea ports of Ukraine are also of NCC's interest. The terminal throughput capacity under the company's control equaled 2.8 million TEUs in 2012.
History
The National Container Company was established in 2002 as an operator of the network of container terminals. The first terminal to be a part of the company was the First Container Terminal at St. Petersburg’s seaport. In 2003 NCC signed a contract with Eurogate with the intention of creating a container terminal in Ust-Luga. The construction of the terminal started in 2007. In 2009 the off-dock container terminal and the logistics complex based in Shushary started functioning. At the Logistics Terminal in 2011 they employed for the first timein CIS the ‘dry port’ technology allowing free movement of containers between the sea terminal and off-dock facility. In December 2011 the Ust-Luga container terminal started up; the first ship to enter the port was that of the Unifeeder company. In 2012 NCC's freight turnover equalled 1.38 million TEUs.
First Quantum Group and Andrey Kobzar, a Russian entrepreneur, are the company's owners in equalshares. 20% of Ust-Luga Container Terminal is controlled by :de:Eurogate|Eurogate. NCC holds the following assets:
The First Container Terminal, which is based in St. Petersburg, with the throughput capacity of 1.35 million TEUs a year.
Ust-Luga Container Terminal is situated at Ust-Luga seaport, in the southern part of the Gulf of Finland 120 km away from St. Petersburg and 57 km away from the Estonian border. Maximum throughput capacity equals 3 million TEUs.
Logistika-Terminal is Shushary-based ground terminal and logistics complex with the throughput capacity of 200,000 TEUs a year.
