Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port down 18% to 12.2 mln t in Jan-May 09
In January-May 2009, Odessa Commercial Sea Port handled 12.226 million tonnes of cargo (-18.2%, year-on-year), the port’s press center reports. In May the company handled 2.246 million tonnes of cargo (-23.3%, year-on-year).
In the 5-month period, the company’s container throughput fell by 38.9% to 18,204 TEU while transshipment of dry cargo increased by 3.3% to 7.49 million tonnes.
Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow to handle more than 14 million tonnes of dry cargoes and 14 million tonnes of oil products annually. In 2008 the port handled 34.5 mln t of cargo.