Ukrainian river ports gain 12.8%, while seaports show a 0.8% drop in January

River ports and piers of Ukraine in January 2010 reported a 12.8 percent rise in volumes of cargoes compared with the same month last year, up to 82.000 tons. The country’s seaport handled 11.671 million tons, or 0.8% down from January 2009, the Ukrainian State Statistics Committee report said.

The report shows transit commodities via the seaports dropped by 30.1% to 3.356.000 tons, while inbound cargoes shank by 43% to 86.9 thousand tons. At the same time, the seaports increased by 18.3%, to 6.966.700 tons volumes of exported commodities, and by 36.4%, to 1.261.500 tons of imports.

In 2009 the country’s commercial seaports transshipped 109 million 716 thousand tons of commodities, a year-over-year 17 percent drop.