Throughput of Ukraine’s commercial seaports up 15% in H1 07, y-o-y
In January-June 2007, throughput of Ukraine’s commercial seaports grew by 15% to 62.051.7 million tonnes, press center of Ukraine’s Transport and Communications Ministry reports according to RBC-Ukraine. Average growth rates made some 22%. Commercial Seaport of Odessa handled 16.712.8 million tonnes of cargo (26.9% of total volume); Yuzhny – 11.138.3 million tonnes (18.0%); Mariupol – 8.503.2 million tonnes (13.7%); Iljichevsk – 7.772 million tonnes (12.5 %).
Activities aimed at optimization of costs enabled the companies to increase income by 0.5% to 3.015.862.2 billion hryvnias, net profit – by 59.4% to 260.293.7 million hryvnias).