Services offered by operators in the Port of St. Petersburg include loading and unloading of vehicles; receipt, delivery, and maintenance of goods, and storage of cargo.

The Port of St. Petersburg employs more than two thousand people to provide high-quality services.

There are 2 important railways in the Port of St. Petersburg the Russian Railways which operates more than 86 thousand kilometers.

The October Railway which has more than 10 thousand kilometers

The Port's territory is divided into 4 cargo areas which perform the main activity.

1. The first called Gutuevsky Kovsh, is used for the handling of export-import bulk, general and packed cargoes.

2. The berths of the second cargo area are and in the Barochny Basin. One deep water berth can accept passenger vessels, two berths service for containers vessels. Besides This area specializes in handling of general export-import cargoes.

3. The third area of the Port is in the territory of Lesnoy Mole. Its berths are used for handling of wheel machinery, pipes, and equipment.The Western part of the area is used for the container terminal.There are also three deep-water berths operating with Ro-Ro cargoes.

4. The fourth area is located in the Coal harbour, it includes two deep-water berths for handling of bulk cargo.In the Northern part of the area there are two berths of the Oil terminal.

One of the most important sectors is the cruise industry. Cruise ships carried near 450000 vessels in 2011.

For bunkering operations and transshipment, Liquid products of oil refinery can be directly handled in the water basin between areas 2/3 and 3/4.

The port locates 43 shipbuilding enterprises which employ more than 50 thousand specialists

We can find building and repair of tankers, LPG tankers, offshore ice-resistant fixed platforms, ice-breakers, etc.