Any enterprise in the country seeks to develop international relations, because this is the prospect of cooperation with foreign companies, new sales markets and constantly growing profits. At the same time, each entrepreneur is faced with the question of transportation of goods, it does not matter if he is the recipient or sender of the goods.
Today, maritime transport is the only transportation at the intercontinental level. Air traffic is also well established, but the cost of such services is quite high and most often from an economic point of view it is generally not profitable.
Sea shipping is almost unlimited port capacity and low cost. At the same time, water transport is the complete absence of the risk of theft of cargo and its damage. In light of this, increased demands are placed on ports for the quality of the services provided. The port is engaged not only in the sending and receiving of goods, but also in the organization of loading and unloading of goods.
For the transport infrastructure of Russia, seaports are of great importance not only in the field of export and import operations, but also as an internal communication. It is somehow necessary to deliver fuel and other goods and products to the same Far North.
Loading and unloading of goods in the port
For entrepreneurs who have never encountered shipping, the question arises that this is a stevedoring company?
Stevedoring operations are activities related to loading and unloading, as a rule, only within the port. Stevedoring companies are also involved in cargo loading, forwarding, provide tally services or agent services.
World practice
What is a stevedoring company? In world practice, the term is interpreted in different ways. In some countries, a stevedore is just a port worker who handles loading and unloading. Such a person can be hired for one-time work or is a full-time employee of the port. But this is the exception rather than the rule, usually stevedore companies that provide a full range of services are hired.
For example, in Canada and the USA, terminal and stevedore services are clearly separated. Each company provides a specific list of services. Most often, such a separation can be found in ports, where there is a special congestion of containers arriving and departing from the pier. In these countries, it is quite difficult to obtain one company at once two licenses.
Russian market
The Russian stevedoring companies market is based mainly on the participation of ports. The degree of involvement in loading operations depends entirely on state participation in the management of the port itself.
It can be represented as follows:
- full control of the state;
- managed by municipal authorities;
- management is left to the public company;
- combined form.
This implies the following classification:
- ports where the organization of loading and unloading is assigned to the port itself;
- ports where management is not engaged in loading, but only leases piers, warehouses and terminals.
The value of ports for Russia
Today, it is the second form that occurs most often, and all over the world. From this it becomes clear that this is a stevedoring company, that is, an enterprise that leases port production facilities and carries out loading and unloading operations, provides other services to port customers. In light of this, it becomes clear that the stevedore in the port is a key figure, and the port rating depends on the quality of the services provided by him.
In the Russian Federation today about 100 seaports are:
- Petersburg
- Oriental.
- Find.
- Caucasus.
- Makhachkala and others.
Thousands of gantry cranes work in the ports, all kinds of equipment, which accounts for hundreds of thousands. Transshipment facilities are capable of handling more than 10 thousand wagons per day. One-time storage can be estimated at 15 million tons of cargo. Seaports account for over 90% of all cargo handling in the country.
What is a stevedoring company in Russia? These are about 250 organizations that carry out loading and unloading activities. Modern Russian stevedoring companies are not only engaged in loading, but also expanding the production capacities of ports, developing road and rail links, organizing new checkpoints, that is, they took over the majority of the development of sea freight and ports.
The Gulf of Finland
For example, the "First Stevedoring Company" of St. Petersburg, created with the support of OJSC "Sea Port of St. Petersburg" has good technical equipment, which includes:
- 38 gantry cranes;
- 134 loaders;
- 2 truck cranes.
The company has huge storage facilities, the port itself allows you to accept any ships that carry out sea transportation.
These advantages make it possible to reload small and oversized cargo, to work with especially heavy goods. The company has a new Ro-ro terminal, allowing you to work with any rolling cargo.
Own storage facilities allow storage of goods at the level of 1 million tons per year.
Kaliningrad direction
Acceptance and dispatch of goods from the Kaliningrad Gulf of the Baltic Sea is carried out by Baltic Stevedoring Company LLC, established on the basis of the port of Baltiysk. It is of great importance for the country, has two ports of call.
The fleet of vehicles is represented by 70 units. The terminal is equipped with a Solvo system, which allows you to exchange data with shipping lines. Warehouses with a total area of 5.6 hectares, with an electrical substation of 3.5 MW, which allows storing perishable goods. The company is relatively young and was opened only in 2002. But during this time, the company was able to acquire a lot of equipment, complete the first stage of the construction of the container terminal, and in 2015 commissioned an in-depth inspection point. In 2016, the company acquired scales for the control of freight transport along the axes, which allows to prevent the overweight of the vessel. In 2017, one of the first in the Kaliningrad region stevedoring company passed certification to ensure transport safety.
The Baltic Stevedoring Company in Kaliningrad has an additional office where you can order all the necessary services without visiting directly the port located in Baltiysk.