Odessa port throughput slides 3.5% to 22.47m tons
Cargo shipments through Ukraine’s Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OMTP) in January-November 2012 fell 3.5% year-on-year to 22.47 million tons, the state-owned company’s statistics said.
In the reporting period, handing of dry cargoes at OMTP rose 16% to 16,46 million tons, primarily due to increased shipments of grain (5.49 million tons, +2,839,400 tons from January-November 2011) and of ferrous metals (3.27 million tons, + 212,500 tons).
This year the port of Odessa has lost much of transit crude oil and petroleum products cargo from Kazakhstan (the majority of the cargo shifted to Russian ports), which affected the total volume of cargo throughput.
State-owned Odessa Commercial Sea Port is a largest port in the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port encompasses 14 ha, 9-km waterfront and 54 berths. The port’s passenger terminal can accommodate 300-m vessels. Port of Odessa is able to handle annually 14 million tons of dry bulk cargo and the same volume of oil products. In 2011, total cargo throughput at the port of Odessa rose 3.7% year-on-year, to 25 mln tons. Container traffic was up 29% to 453,700 TEUs.