Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) for past 10 months of 2011 rose by 3 percent over the same period of 2010, to 21,123,000 tons, the port authorities said.
In the reporting period, dry cargo volumes totaled 1.5 million tons. Shipments of liquid bulk cargo declined 10 percent from a year earlier, to 8,163,000 tons.
This October cargo traffic at the port rose by 24% to 2,201,000 tons thanks to increased volumes of all cargoes handled at the port, said chief dispatcher Ruslan Sakhautdinov. Monthly volume of metals totaled 254,000 tons (+84,800), grain exports soared by 135,000 tons from last year’s October, to 486,000 tons, handling of containers amounted to 39,280 TEUs (+6,500 teus), citrus – to 30,000 tons (+3,000) and liquid bulk – to 704,000 tons (+39,700).
State-owned Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports in the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port encompasses 14 ha, 9-km waterfront and 54 berths. The port is able to handle annually 14 million tons of dry cargo and the same volume of petroleum products. Container terminals can handle over 900,000 TEUs annually. Odessa Passenger Terminal is able to handle up to 4 million people a year. Last year, Odessa saw 72 calls of foreign-flagged cruise ships. In 2010, cargo throughput of OCSP was down 11.8% year-on-year, to 24.7 million tons.