In January-May, 2008, the port of Odessa handled 14.946.5 million tonnes of cargo (+7.3%, year-on-year), the port’s press center informs.
In May, transshipment of containers totaled 46,409 TEU (28,703 units), a 17.7-pct increase, y-o-y. In the 5-month period, the port’s container throughput grew by 14.6%, year-on-year, to 211,434 TEU (129,88 units).
Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black Sea-Azov range.
Technical facilities of the port allow to process more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 14 million tons of oil products annually. Port processes about 30 million tons of cargoes per year, among them more 15 million tons of liquid cargoes, including oil and crude oil, condensed gas and vegetable oil.
Port's universality provides handling practically of any kind of cargoes: oil and crude oil in bulk, condensed gas; tropical and vegetable oil, technical oil, containers, non-ferrous and ferrous metal; ore, cast iron, raw sugar in bulk; grain in bulk; paper, perishable cargoes in containers; different general cargoes in bags, boxes, parcels, barrels and integrated cargo units.
54 protected berths with total length of quay line more than 9,000 m allow to accept the vessels with cargo carrying capacity up to 100 thousand tons, up to 300 m length and up to 13, 0 m draft.