Freight volume handled by SE Odessa Commercial Sea Port (SE OCSP) in the January 2011 increased by 11.3% from the same period of 2010, to 2,388,000 tons, the enterprise press service said.
In the reporting period shipments of ferrous metals dropped by 33%, the volume vegetable oil slumped 56%. At the same time, the port handled more containerized cargo, sugar, refrigerated cargoes and timber. The volume of petroleum products leaped by 38%, handling of ore rose as much as twofold, to 242,000 tons thanks to Russian transit cargoes (from Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky ore-dressing and processing enterprises).
OCSP’s net income in January 2011 fell 17.4% to UAH 46 million.
State-owned enterprise Odessa Commercial Sea Port is the largest port of the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port enables trade flows in the amount of over 14 million tons of dry cargo and 14m tons of petroleum products a year. In 2010, cargo throughput of OCSP shrank by 11.8% - to 24,7 million tons.
In the reporting period shipments of ferrous metals dropped by 33%, the volume vegetable oil slumped 56%. At the same time, the port handled more containerized cargo, sugar, refrigerated cargoes and timber. The volume of petroleum products leaped by 38%, handling of ore rose as much as twofold, to 242,000 tons thanks to Russian transit cargoes (from Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky ore-dressing and processing enterprises).
OCSP’s net income in January 2011 fell 17.4% to UAH 46 million.
State-owned enterprise Odessa Commercial Sea Port is the largest port of the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port enables trade flows in the amount of over 14 million tons of dry cargo and 14m tons of petroleum products a year. In 2010, cargo throughput of OCSP shrank by 11.8% - to 24,7 million tons.