8,000mts of steel plates were loaded in open sea onto mv BeiHai, going from Mariupol port, Ukraine to EU ports. Loading was performed in the offshore zone of the Black sea. Total cargo quantity loaded on board of the vessel 33,000mts.
“Metinvest Group has become the first company on the world market, who took responsibility for topping-off at the outer roads when the risk of damage to both cargo and vessel is high enough. We elaborated this project in the team of specialists from Metinvest, Transship and Portinvest”, commented Olga Ovchinnikova, director of logistics of Metinvest Group.
The transshipment was accomplished by the Afina transshipment complex of Transship company. Experts of Portinvest Holding coordinated the loading of the steel plates at outer roads, as well as the loading of iron ore concentrate and pig iron.
“Handling of rolled steel and steel plates especially is a complex and important process, carried out by dockers in the port. In the open sea, it is much more difficult to do due to a number of natural and technological limitations. Currently we are analysing the results of this loading to identify the additional reserves by improving processes and operations of loading works both on the roads and in the port”, noted Aleksander Smyrnov, general director of Portinvest Holding.