Sea Port Of St. Petersburg’s environment protection investments in 2018 surge 31%
In 2018 Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg JSC (SP St.Pb, part of UCL Holding) continued investments in its environmental sustainability. The Company says it has spent in excess of RUB 44.5 million for environment protection measures, which is 31% higher on the previous year’s expenditure figures.
The increase was due to more funding of modernization of environment protection facilities and regular air quality control. In spite of a 12% growth in cargo throughput to 7,7 million tonnes the company was able to reduce environmental footprint in all major parameters.
In 2018 SP St.Pb’s investment in modernization of port water environmental facilities soared 50% to RUB 21.6 million rubles. In particular, the company continued to improve water disposal system and overhauled some sections of the sewer and the specific volume of waste per a tonne of handled cargo reduced by 24%, gross volume – by 15%.
As part of clean air programme SP St.Pb increased by threefold to RUB 224,000 financing of control measures of air quality compliance. As a result the number of air samples taken and measurements at the border of the sanitary protection zone rose by 1,5 times. Environmental monitoring was performed by certified laboratory specialists. The lab analysis results confirmed the compliance of air quality to standards. The company managed to reduce by 4% specific emissions per a tonne of handled cargo.
To reduce production and consumption waste, SP St. Pb carried out a waste management action plan. As a result the company's specific waste volume for one year decreased by 24%, gross volume - by 14.6%. At the same time, the total volume of neutralized and recycled waste increased by two times for further use.
About Sea Port of St. Petersburg
Sea Port of St. Petersburg JSC (formerly Leningrad Sea Commercial Port) is the largest in Big Port of Saint-Petersburg terminals operator specialising in handling of a broad range of freight, including heavylift, oversize, general, dry bulk and Ro-Ro cargoes. Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg is part of UCL Port, a stevedoring division of international transportation group UCL Holding comprising Container terminal Saint-Petersburg JSC, Multipurpose Reloading Complex LLC both based in Russia's North-West and Tuapse and Taganrog sea ports located in the country's southern region. UCL Port’s development program includes modernization of the existing terminals and construction of new ones for handling general, bulk and container cargoes.
Sea Port of St. Petersburg operates 31 berths of total length of 5.3 km, indoor and outdoor storage facilities of 46,000 and 412,200 sqm, respectively. The port's fleet of handling equipment includes 39 gantry cranes of hoisting capacity of 40 tonnes, a floating 300-tonne crane, two Liebherr RTG 140-tonne cranes LHM 600, two Mantsinen 200ES cranes with capacity of 32.2 tonnes, one truck-mounted 55-tonne crane and 213 different specialized loading mechanisms.