Stevedoring company - what is it?

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

Any company in the country strives to develop international relations, because this is the prospect of cooperation with foreign companies, new markets and constantly growing profits. At the same time, every entrepreneur is faced with the question of transporting goods, no matter whether he is the recipient or sender of the goods.

Today, sea 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 not profitable at all from an economic point of view.

Marine transportation means practically unlimited port capacity and low cost. At the same time, transportation by water transport is a complete absence of the risk of cargo theft and damage. In light of this, the ports are subject to increased requirements for the quality of services provided. The port is engaged not only in sending and receiving cargo, but also in organizing the 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 message. In the same Far North, it is somehow necessary to deliver fuel andother goods and products.

Loading and unloading goods at the port

Entrepreneurs who have never de alt with maritime transport have the question, what is a stevedoring company?

Stevedoring operations are activities related to loading and unloading operations, as a rule, only within the port. Stevedoring companies are also involved in stowage, forwarding, tallying and agency 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 more the exception than the rule, usually stevedoring companies are hired, which provide a full range of services.

For example, in Canada and the US, terminal and stevedoring 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 with containers arriving and departing from the berth. In these countries, it is quite difficult for one company to obtain two licenses at once.

Russian market

The market of stevedoring companies in Russia is based mainly on the participation of ports. The degree of involvement in loading operations depends entirely on the participation of the state inmanaging the port itself.

It can be represented as follows:

• full government control;
• managed by municipal authorities;
• management outsourced to a public company;
• combined form.

The following classification follows from this:

• ports where the organization of loading and unloading operations is entrusted to the port itself;
• ports where management does not handle loading, but only leases berths, warehouses and terminals.

Meaning of ports for Russia

Today, it is the second form that is most common, and all over the world. From here it becomes clear that this is a stevedoring company, that is, an enterprise that leases the port's production facilities and performs loading and unloading operations, provides other services to the port's customers. In light of this, it becomes clear that the stevedore in the port is a key figure and the rating of the port depends on the quality of the services it provides.

In the Russian Federation today there are about 100 seaports, these are:

• Petersburg.
• Oriental.
• Nakhodka.
• Caucasus.
• Makhachkala and others.

Thousands of gantry cranes work in ports, all kinds of equipment, the bill of which goes to hundreds of thousands. Transshipment complexes are capable of handling more than 10,000 wagons per day. One-time storage can be estimated at 15 million tons of cargo. More than 90% of the processing of allcargo 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 capacity of ports, developing road and rail communications, organizing new checkpoints, that is, they have taken most of the care for the development of sea freight and ports.

Gulf of Finland

For example, the "First Stevedoring Company" of St. Petersburg, created with the support of Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC, has good technical equipment, which includes:

• 38 gantry cranes;
• 134 loader;
• 2 truck cranes.

The company has huge storage facilities, the port itself allows you to receive any ships that carry out sea transportation.

These advantages make it possible to carry out transshipment of small and large-sized cargoes, to work with especially heavy goods. The company has a new Ro-Ro terminal that allows you to work with any ro-ro cargo.

Own warehouses allow storage of goods at the level of 1 million tons per year.

Kaliningrad direction

Acceptance and dispatch of goods from the Kaliningrad Bay of the B altic Sea is carried out by B altic Stevedoring Company LLC, established on the basis of the port of B altiysk. It is of great importance forcountry, has two ports of call.

The fleet of vehicles is represented by 70 units. The terminal is equipped with the Solvo system, which allows the exchange of data with shipping lines. Warehouses with a total area of 5.6 hectares, with an electrical substation for 3.5 MW, which allows storing perishable goods. The company is relatively young and was only opened in 2002. But during this time, the company was able to purchase a lot of equipment, complete the first stage of the construction of a container terminal, and in 2015 put into operation an in-depth inspection point. In 2016, the company purchased scales to control cargo transport along the axes, which makes it possible to prevent the overweight of the vessel. In 2017, one of the first stevedoring companies in the Kaliningrad region passed certification for ensuring transport security.

"B altic Stevedoring Company" in Kaliningrad has an additional office where you can order all the necessary services without directly visiting the port located in B altiysk.