Throughput of the port of Temryuk up 10.6% in H1 07, y-o-y
In January-June 2007, throughput of the port of Temryuk totaled 601.34 thou tonnes (+10.6%, year-on-year), PortNews IAA learnt from Taman branch of Rosmorport FSUE. In the first half of the year. transshipment of export cargo made 520.55 thou tonnes (+0.87%, year-on-year) including 154.778 thou tonnes of sawn timber, 34.830 thou tonnes of round timber, 137.644 thou tonnes of chemical cargo. Transshipment of grain totaled 1.04 thou tonnes, fertilizers - 22.680 thou tonnes, non-ferrous metal - 76.754 thou tonnes, general cargo - 79.890 thou tonnes. Import totaled 80.79 thou tonnes (2.9 times more than in January-June 2006). In the reported period the port handled 294 vessels (+10.9%, year-on-year).
Temryuk Commercial Seaport is located at Taman coast of the Sea of Azov. Total length of the port’s berths is 1200 running meters. Major type of cargo handled at the port is the general cargo: round timber, timber materials, metal, as well as out-of-gage load and foodstuffs. Dredging works carried out from 1996, has almost finalized for the moment being at the approach canal, and the port is able to accept river-and-sea-going vessels with up to 5,000 tonnes of displacement.