A stevedoring company is Definitions, characteristics, special cases

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The concept is quite common. Even if you do not specifically know what is hidden behind this phrase, you have definitely met this type of activity under other definitions. However, let's get straight to the point: find out that this is a stevedoring company.

Stevedore - what (who) is this?

The word comes from English. stevedore - "to lay out, stack loads".

The term, if we turn to dictionaries, will be very ambiguous. So, a stevedoring company is:

• Any specialized company or organization whose main activity is the unloading and loading of cargoes of sea, river vessels.
• A company that not only has its own berth in the port, but also carries out loading and unloading operations on it. In other words, it is one of the port operators.
• Hence the stevedore is one of the representatives of such an organization, whose main task is to directly control the process of unloading and loading ships.
• The person in charge of loading and unloading in foreign ports.
• Stevedore is also quite right to call a portloader, handyman, ship worker, who carries out the process of loading and unloading cargo on a watercraft. By the way, only a senior worker, a foreman at such unloading and loading activities can be called that way.
• A stevedore is another definition of a port cargo contractor.

Features of the stevedoring company

Please note that a port and a stevedoring company are not the same thing. Therefore, if you meet such an association in the literature, then be sure that it is false. The stevedore operates in the port, but is not one. In addition, several stevedoring companies can operate on it (port), and if it is large, then more than a hundred!

In fact, this can include any legal or natural person with whom a legal contract has been concluded to control the loading and unloading of ship's "baggage". The stevedor is obliged to send his representative to the port for such activities. The task of the latter is not only to carry out the process of loading and unloading, but also to competently organize the progress of work. To do this, the representative draws up estimates, plans taking into account the loads and other documents.

Further, the specialist scrupulously ensures that all work is carried out strictly according to the schedule drawn up by him. He is also responsible for the simple. In addition, the task of the stevedore is to ensure that the work is carried out in accordance with the norms of labor legislation, in compliance with allsafety items.

To better understand that this is a stevedoring company, let's move on to particular cases. Consider the most famous representatives of this business niche.

Eastern Stevedoring Company

VSK (LLC "VSK") is the domestic operator of the largest container terminal in the Far East, which is located in the port of Vostochny. Its headquarters is located in the village of Wrangel-1 (Nakhodka). The post of managing director is occupied by Dudko A. V., operational director - Balitsky E. N.

The history of "Eastern Stevedoring Company" began in 2004. The container terminal of the Vostochny port served as the base. The latter has good characteristics:

• Total area - 72 ha.
• Number of berths - 4.
• Total length - 1284 m.
• Capacity 550 thousand TEU.
• Integration: access roads to Nakhodka-Vostochnaya, two railway fronts - the capacity of the first is estimated at 75 conditional gondola cars, the second - at 100.

The main specialization of VSK today is the transshipment of containers (including refrigerated ones). In addition, general cargo and ro-ro cargo are handled.

LLC "VSK" is part of Global Ports. This group is considered the leading operator of terminals for the transshipment of oil products and containerized cargo in the Russian Federation and the B altic countries.

B altic Stevedoring Company

LLC "BSK" - operator of cargo, passengercontainer car ferry terminal. This stevedoring company in B altiysk has two lines:

• MSK with ports of call: Rauma - Antwerp - B altiysk - Bremenhaven.
• Maersk with ports of call: Gdansk - B altiysk - Bremenhaven - Kotka.

In 2016, the cargo turnover here amounted to 743.3 thousand tons. The stevedoring company specializes in rolling, general cargo, containers. The area of the entire terminal is 25.8 hectares. There are two berths with a total length of 0.5 km. They accept ships with a maximum displacement of 20,000 tons.

Examples of other stevedores

Let's look at other LLCs - stevedoring companies:

• "Small Port" (Nakhodka).
• "Terminal" (Nakhodka).
• "First Stevedoring Company" (Murmansk).
• "Slavyansky timber terminal" (Slavyanka town).
• Ulyanovsknerudsnab.
• "Class" (St. Petersburg).
• "Igarsk stevedoring company".
• "Nikmet-Terminal" (Nikolaevsk).

Thus, stevedoring companies are organizations involved in loading and unloading operations in ports. In Russia, these are private companies - LLC. A stevedore can also be called a person who organizes and controls a separate process of loading and unloading, a worker, foreman (ship or port) engaged in such work.