Delo Group Terminals in Novorossiysk Retain Leadership in Grain and Container Throughput in 2025
The NUTEP container terminal and the KSK grain terminal — both part of Deloports, which manages Delo Group’s port assets in Novorossiysk — maintained their leading positions in container and grain transshipment at the end of 2025. NUTEP retained leadership in container volumes within the Azov-Black Sea basin, while KSK remained the country’s leading terminal for grain transshipment.
NUTEP increased container throughput by 1.9% year on year to 624,000 TEU in 2025. The terminal remained the volume leader in the Azov-Black Sea basin, ranked second among Russia’s container terminals overall, and retained its leading position in container exports.
KSK handled 7.4 million tonnes of grain for export in 2025 (-28.6% year on year), while increasing its share of the Russian deep-water grain transshipment market. The decline in volumes was primarily driven by the weak grain harvest in 2024. With the start of the new grain season in the second half of 2025, the market began to recover. By August, October, and November, KSK was transshipping more than 1.0 million tonnes of grain cargo per month for export. In the fourth quarter of 2025, KSK’s grain transshipment grew by 4.3% year on year.
“Despite the contraction of the maritime container transshipment market and the decline in grain exports in 2025, Deloports increased its container volumes and strengthened its position in the grain segment, confirming its leadership among Russian stevedoring companies,” the company’s management said.
Consolidated results of Deloports:
Note: Operating data have been rounded. As a result, individual figures and percentage changes may not sum precisely.
| FY 2025 | FY 2024 | Change | ||
| Absolute | % | |||
| Maritime container throughput | ||||
| NUTEP (thousand TEU) | 624 | 613 | 11 | 1,9% |
| Maritime non-containerized cargo turnover | ||||
| KSK (grain, million tonnes) | 7,4 | 10,3 | -2,9 | -28,6% |
Company background:
Delo Group (Delo Group of Companies) is a Russian transportation and logistics holding company, a leader in marine handling and railway transportation of containers, as well as deep-sea grain handling in Russia. Companies of the Group provide cargo delivery across all stages of the multimodal transportation chain in both domestic and cross-border traffic. The Group operates 7 marine terminals in Black, Baltic and Far East basins, as well as 45 inland terminals. The total capacity of the marine terminals is 3.5 million TEU and 10.5 million tons of grain per year, and 3.5 million TEU per year of the inland terminals. The Group operates a fleet of 41,000 fitting platforms and containers with a total capacity of 230,000 TEU, as well as its own fleet.
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