Sea Port St. Petersburg handles specialized cargo for Guiana Space Centre

A team of Sea Port St. Petersburg stevedore company (Morport St. Pb) jointly with the specialists of Universal Forwarder on 1 and 2 June carried out loading of two launch vehicles at Berth # 35 to be shipped to the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana, the Group’s press office said.

First, containers laden with sets of modernized boosters were loaded onto the MN Colibri with the use of gantry cranes with lifting capacity of 40 tons. Then blocks of the launch vehicles "Soyuz-ST’ were loaded from a train to the roll-trailers and transported to the MN Colibri via the slip of Ro-Ro terminal’s Berth Number 37.

This was the fourth operation for loading the equipment intended for French spaceport Kourou carried out at the terminals of Sea Port St. Petersburg Group in the framework of the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and France.

The Group of companies Sea Port St. Petersburg is part of Universal Cargo Logistics Holding. The Group includes Seaport of Saint-Petersburg, JSC Fourth Stevedoring Company, Universal Handling Terminal in Ust-Luga LLC, and a number of service companies. In 2010, cargo throughput of the Seaport St. Petersburg was 12.1 million tons.

UCL Holding’s Universal Freight Forwarder organizes cargo handling and freight forwarding at sea and river ports of Russia, CIS countries and Europe, provides intermodal and multimodal transportation, charter of sea and river vessels, provides ship agency services in the Azov-Black Sea basin. The company has an extensive branch network in Russia.

The Guiana Space Centre, Kourou Spaceport, is located in French Guiana (South America), 50 km from Kayena, on the Atlantic coast. The center is intended for launching geostationary satellites.
(Source:http://en.portnews.ru)