OREANDA-NEWS. April 2, 2009. First vessel called to ro-ro terminal on the territory of First  Stevedoring Company (part of the group of companies “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg”). Workers of FSС discharged from “Trans Europe” ferry about 90 roll-trailers with the general cargoes with the total weight of  3 000 tons.

Ro-ro terminal – is the third successful project within the Development Programme of the group of companies “Sea port of Saint-Petersburg”. The group of companies   transferred about 780 mln. rubles for engineering works, construction and reconstruction of infrastructure of the 1st stage of the terminal.

Terminal with the annual capacity of 1 mln. tons can handle all types of ro-ro cargoes: cars, roll-trailers, highway freighters, автопоезда, wheeled vehicles and caterpillars. All these vehicles transported further through check-points by trucks and railway   transport.

Storage capacity of the terminal (open grounds -152 thousand sq. m, warehouses- 8 thousand sq. m) allows to store simultaneously about 3 000 units of various vehicles.

Regular calls of “Trans Europe” ferries to ro-ro terminal will ensure ro-ro handling volumes amounting to 400 thousand tons in 2009.