According to the information provided by Odessa Commercial Seaport, container turnover totaled 315.124 thou TEU in January-October 2006 (+36.7%, or +84.701 thou TEU against year-on-year result), RZD-Partner reports. In 2005 the dynamics was the following: +43.8% or +70.766 thou TEU.
In October 2006 the port handled 35.745 thou TEU (+29.6% against October 2005). A month before - +22.5%. The majority of containers were handled in import direction – 176.923 thou TEU, 55.8% of total transshipment in the reported period. 99.5% of this amount was loaded containers – 176.214 thou TEU. In export direction – 138.201 thou TEU, or 44.2% of total transshipment with 24% of loaded containers.