Unifeeder to call twice a week at UST-Luga terminal near St Petersburg

UST-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT), a part of National Container Company (NCC) group, will start handling two weekly calls on Wednesdays and Sundays operated by Unifeeder from December 3.

This brings the number of shipping lines calling at ULCT to three, including CMA CGM and Maersk Line. The terminal is located in the Leningrad Oblast (district), near the city that was once Leningrad but has since been renamed St Petersburg.

A group release said that ULCT's first phase annual capacity is 440,000 TEU with a total area of 40 hectares, quay length of 440 metres, depth alongside of 13.5 metres, storage capacity of 15,000 TEU, 840 reefer plugs, four STS (panamax), 11 RTG and two RMGs.

The maximum capacity of 2.85 million TEU will be available at ULCT by 2025. ULCT is managed by NCC and Eurogate, Europe's leading container terminal and logistics group.

National Container Company (NCC) is a leading container terminal operator in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The company's terminal network comprises First Container Terminal in St Petersburg, Logistika-Terminal in Shushary, St Petersburg, Ust-Luga Container Terminal, and its Ukraine Container Terminal in IIyichevsk. The combined throughput capacity of NCC's terminals is 2.8 million TEU.