Freight traffic through Yuzhny (South) Commercial Sea Port (Odessa region, Ukraine) amounted to 1.550.900 tons in January 2010, or 5.4% up from the same period last year. Volumes of handled commodities at the port reached 1.171.800 tons (+7.4% from the same period in 2009). In January the port handled 67 ships and 12.585 gondola cars, the company press service said.

The Port’s boosted rates were due to a significant increase in the volumes of ore. The port has seen this January a 216.8 percent surge in volumes of iron ore, from 211.500 tons the same period last years. Besides, some 40.000 tons of manganese ore and 73.100 tons agglomerate added to the overall volumes.
 
Volumes of urea reached 238.800 tons, a 108.4 percent jump, of ammonia - 205%, to 148.000 tones, of UAN by 151% - 27.500 tons.

According to Yuri Kruk, general director of the YCSP the authorities expect in the next months a steady volume of coal and ore and bulked cargoes. In 2009, the crises hit the chemical industry. If the November-January positive chemical cargoes trend persists the growth in shipment and handling rates might be expected.
 
The state-owned Yuzhny Port, founded back in 1978, is located on the bank Adzhalyksk estuary. Its annual throughput is at 15 million tons of cargo. YCSP specializes in handling liquid bulk, bulked cargo, chemical, coal and ore and packaged unit loads. Freight traffics via the port amounted to 17.838.400 tons in 2009. Overall throughput of all operators at the Adzhalyksk estuary basin amounted to 37.879.000 tons.