OREANDA-NEWS. September 26, 2011. Throughput of Tuapse Commercial Sea Port’s grain terminal, commissioned in April 2010 as part of UCLH’s stevedoring division expansion, hit in September the benchmark of 1 million tons, reaching the projected capacity, the company said.

The bulk of freight flows were exported wheat (940,000 mt) and barley (60,000 mt). After grain exports ban was lifted by the Russian government, the terminal expects to reach the volume of 2.4 million tons next year.

The export grain is delivered to the Tuapse-based Grain Terminal by rail transport, is stored at the silo facility and then is loaded to ships. Performance of the terminal’s transport facilities reaches 700 tons / hour, capacity - about 2.4 million tons a year.

In 2010, prior to the exports embargo, the terminal handled 530,000 tons of grain cargo.

Tuapse Commercial Sea Port JSC (TMTP), founded in 1994, is the main operator at one of the largest ports in Russia - the port of Tuapse. TMTP is a majority owned stevedoring asset of Dutch-registered Universal Cargo Logistics Holding (UCL Holding), a transport group comprising a number of shipping, shipbuilding, railway, logistics and stevedoring companies based in Russia.