In January-February, 2010 freight traffic through Yeysk Sea Port OJSC (owned by the Sovfraht-Sovmortrans Group of companies) amounted to 148.800 tons. In January this year the port handled 60.600 tons of cargo, in February - some 90.000 tons. The two recent months output dropped 1.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Group’s press service said.

The January decline in transshipped volumes, the Company said, was primarily due to heavy ice situation in the Azov Sea and the severe weather conditions in the region. However there was a sign of slight recovery in the last weeks of February. The stevedoring company loaded exported cargoes onto 21 ships (in January there were19 vessels), including two shipments by Onda vessel, operated by Sovfracht OJSC.

Shipments of exported wheat (over 73.000 tons), as well as 53.000 tons of coal heavily added to overall volumes in January-February this year, the Company statement said.

Among the other major cargo volumes that contributed to the two months output were shipments of beet molasses, making up over 8.000 tons, as well as the 12.000 tons of handled corn and meal.

Yeysk seaport transships export and import freight flows between southern regions of Russia and the countries of the Mediterranean and Black Seas: Turkey, Greece, Italy, Israel, Egypt, etc. Yeysk is a year-round open port for river-sea ships. Yeysk Port maintains and operates 6 universal berths of total 960-m-length moorage wall. The port’s handling facilities capacity is at 2 million tons a year.