Ukraine’s Yuzhny port welcomes arrival of mega bulker
The Bahamas-flagged V Kerkis called at Yuzhny Merchant Port. The dry bulk carrier has 315 meters in length, deadweight of 209,000 tons and is the third largest ship ever to have entered the Black Sea. The bulker was built in 1982.
The V Kerkis left the port with a cargo of iron ore concentrate on June 11 to the Chinese port of Dalian. On the way back she made call at the port of Tuapse on August 31, carrying 79,000 tons of ballast and then headed for Yuzhny.
State-owned Yuzhny Merchant Sea Port founded in 1978 is located on the northwest coast of the Black Sea, in the ice-free Small Adzhalyksk (Grygoryivsky) estuary, 30 km northeast of Odessa. The port is connected to the sea by a 3km-long, 14m-deep approach canal. In 2011, cargo throughput at Yuzhny Port was 22,639,100 tons.