In January-February 2009, Odessa Commercial Sea Port handled 4.616.4 million tonnes of cargo (-20%, year-on-year), the company reports. The port’s container throughput totaled 41,354 TEU (-46%, year-on-year).
Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow to process more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 14 million tons of oil products annually. There are eight handling complexes for dry cargoes processing, passenger complex, oil and container terminals, complex for technical and vegetable oil processing on the 133 hectares of the port territory. The container terminal is capable of handling 700,000 TEU per year. Special (free) Economic Zone "Porto-Franko" is situated on the Quarantine pier. 54 protected berths with total length of quay line more than 9,000 m allow to accept the vessels with cargo carrying capacity up to 100,000 tonnes, up to 300 m length and up to 13.0 m draft. In 2008, the port handled 34.5 million tonnes of cargo.