Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP) handled in January-July of this year 14 490 000 tons of cargo, a 3.2 percent increase over the same period last year. In addition, OCSP increased transshipment of dry cargo, 887700 tons more than a year before, the company said.
In the reporting period container throughput surged by 32% to 248080 TEUs, shipment of iron ore rose by 963 400 tons vs last year’s numbers to 1 815 000 tons, raw sugar volume totaled 609 000 tons (+170 000 tons), citrus fruits - to 249 000 tons (+70 000 tons).
State-owned Odessa Commercial Sea Port is a largest port of the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port encompasses 14 ha, 9-km waterfront and 54 berths to accommodate 13meter draft vessels.
The port capacity is 21 million tons of dry cargo and 25 million tons of liquid bulk cargo a year. Container terminals can handle over 900 000 TEUs annually. Passenger terminal is able to handle up to 4 million people a year.
In 2010, cargo throughput of OCSP shrank by 11.8% year-over-year to 24.7 million tons, container traffic totaled 351 600 TEUs.