The concept is quite common. Even if you do not specifically know what is hidden behind this phrase, you definitely met with this type of activity under other definitions. However, let's get right to the point: we find out that this is a stevedoring company.
Stevedore - what (who) is it?
The word comes from the English. stevedore - "lay out, stack loads."
The term, if we look at the dictionaries, will be very ambiguous. So, a stevedore, a stevedoring company is:
- Any specialized company or organization whose main activity is the unloading and loading of cargo of sea and river vessels.
- A company that not only has its own berth in the port, but also carries out cargo handling at 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 of ships.
- The person who handles the loading and unloading of foreign ports.
- It is also quite right to name Stevedore a port loader, a laborer, a shipbuilder, who carries out the process of loading and unloading cargo onto a swimming facility. By the way, this is exactly what they can call only a senior worker, a foreman on such unloading and loading activities.
- Stevedore, according to another definition, is a port cargo contractor.
Features of the company stevedore
Let us draw your attention to the fact that a port and a stevedoring company are not the same thing. Therefore, if you find such an association in the literature, then be sure that it is false. Stevedore operates in the port, but is not. In addition, several stevedore companies can work 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 "baggage". Stevedore must send a representative to the port for such activities. The task of the latter is not only to carry out the loading and unloading process, but also to competently organize the progress of work. For this, the representative draws up estimates, plans taking into account the loads and other documents.
Further, the specialist carefully monitors that all work is carried out strictly according to his schedule. He is also responsible for simple responsibility. In addition, the task of the stevedore is to ensure that the work is carried out according to the norms of labor legislation, in compliance with all safety measures.
In order to better understand that this is a stevedoring company, we turn to special cases. Consider the most famous representatives of this business niche.
"Eastern stevedoring company"
VSK (VSK LLC) is the domestic operator of the largest container terminal in the Far East, which is located in the port of Vostochny. Its head office is located in the village of Wrangel-1 (Nakhodka). The post of managing director is occupied by A. V. Dudko, and the operational director is E. N. Balitsky.
The history of the Eastern Stevedoring Company began in 2004. The base was the container terminal of the port of Vostochny. The latter has good characteristics:
- The total area is 72 hectares.
- Number of berths - 4.
- The total length is 1284 m.
- Power 550 thousand TEU.
- Integration: access roads to Nakhodka-Vostochnaya, two railway fronts - the capacity of the first is estimated at 75 conventional gondola cars, the second - at 100.
The main specialization of VSK today is the handling of containers (including refrigerated ones). In addition, transshipment of general cargo and cargo of rollers is carried out.
VSK LLC is a member 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 Baltic countries.
Baltic Stevedoring Company
BSK LLC is an operator of a cargo, passenger container auto-ferry terminal. This stevedoring company in Baltiysk has two lines:
- MSK with ports of call: Rauma - Antwerp - Baltiysk - Bremenhaven.
- Maersk with ports of call: Gdansk - Baltiysk - Bremenhaven - Kotka.
For 2016, the cargo turnover here amounted to 743.3 thousand tons. Specialization of the stevedoring company: rolling, general cargo, containers. The area of the entire terminal is 25.8 ha. There are two berths with a total length of 0.5 km. They accept vessels with a maximum displacement of 20 thousand tons.
Examples of other stevedores
Let's look at other LLC - stevedoring companies:
- The Small Port (Nakhodka).
- "Terminal" (Find).
- "The first stevedoring company" (Murmansk).
- "Slavic Forest Terminal" (town Slavyanka).
- Ulyanovsknerudsnab.
- "Class" (St. Petersburg).
- "Igara Stevedoring Company".
- "Nikmet-Terminal" (Nikolaevsk).
Thus, stevedoring companies are organizations engaged in loading and unloading operations in ports. In Russia, these are private firms - LLC. A stevedore can also be called a person who organizes and controls a separate process of loading and unloading, a worker, a foreman (ship or port), engaged in such work.