NCSP comprises the six largest stevedore and port services companies at the Port, together handling approximately 97% of the Port’s cargo volumes, which gives NCSP a leading market position at the Port. In addition, NCSP has a stevedore operation specialising in container cargo at the port of Baltiysk, on the Baltic Sea in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region.

NCSP operates principally in the following areas:

 
• NCSP provides a full range of stevedoring services, including shipment of oil and oil products, other liquid cargo, dry bulk cargo and general cargo.

 
• IPP operates a high-speed complex for shipment of liquid cargoes, including oil products and liquid fertiliser.

 
• NLE Timber & Container Terminal provides cargo shipment and storage services for exporting containers and wood products, such as timber and timber products and other general cargo.

 
• NZT Grain Terminal operates a high-speed grain storage and shipment terminal, with capacity for storing and shipping up to 4.0 million tonnes annually, and which can load a Panamax class vessel in 72 hours.

  
• NSRZ Ship Repair Yard ships ferrous metal products, non-ferrous metal products and metal scrap, provides ship repair services to vessels calling at the Port, including vessels from the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet, and generates electricity for its own use.

  
• NCSP Fleet provides tug, towing and mooring services for vessels in and around the Port, and also provides emergency, hazardous materials response and waste management services at the Port.

 
• Baltic Stevedore provides shipment services for container cargo, cargo storage and vessel mooring at the car ferry, cargo and passenger terminal located at the port of Baltiysk on the Baltic Sea in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region.

 
NCSP is the largest stevedoring company in Russia, as well as the largest at the Port, in terms of cargo turnover, according to Global Insight/ISL. Through its Sheskharis oil terminal, NCSP handles approximately 47 million tones of the oil exported from Russia through Russian sea ports. NCSP also handles high volumes of many other cargoes, including dry bulk cargoes such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as containers, and is constructing a terminal for shipment of solid mineral fertilisers.

 
NCSP occupies waterfront at the Port with an aggregate frontage of 7.5 km and has 38 berths, which it leases from the State, and which include berths which are among the deepest in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Its facilities include covered warehouses and open storage yards, and it owns or has long-term leases on other hydrotechnical infrastructure, loading equipment and other facilities required for its operations.

 
NCSP uses 2.2 km of its waterfront at the Port for liquid cargoes, including oil and oil products, which NCSP handles via its Sheskharis oil terminal. NCSP leases 2.2 km berths at the Sheskharis oil terminal, and owns a 2.2 km pipeline extension carrying oil to the terminal from a tank farm operated by Transneft, the Russian pipeline monopoly. NCSP’s berths used for shipment of liquid cargo have depths ranging from 4.5 metres to a maximum of 24 metres, which allows NCSP to load crude oil onto tankers with a dead weight of up to 150,000 tonnes, the largest tankers permitted to navigate the Turkish Straits.

 
NCSP uses 4.5 km of its waterfront at the Port for shipment of dry cargoes, including bulk cargo and containers. NCSP leases 24 dry cargo berths with depths ranging from 5.5 metres up to a maximum of 13.5 metres. This maximum depth permits NCSP’s berths to accommodate Panamax class vessels with a dead weight of up to 60,000 tonnes.