Throughput of Odessa port (Ukraine) up 19.6% to 35,000 TEUs in Jan’13
According to on-line data of the main control room of the port of Odessa the volume of cargo handled at the berths of the port in January this year totaled 1.72 million tons, the port’s press center reports.
Growth of dry cargo handling, such as grain, ore, perishables and containers was noted. Total volume of dry cargoes totaled 1.43 million tons, which is 7.1% higher than in the first month of 2012. There is also a positive trend in container handling in January: 35 thousand TEU (+5,7 thousand TEU, or + 19.6% compared to January 2012).
The bad news is connected with continued decrease in liquid cargo handling. In total in January oil handling amounted to 291.7 thousand tons (-362.1 thousand tons, or - 54% compared to January 2012). The main reason for the recession is reorientation of transit cargo of crude oil and petroleum products of Russian and Kazakh origin to the Russian ports.
Odessa Commercial Sea Port operates in one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow to handle more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 24 million tons of liquid cargoes annually. The port’s passenger terminal accepts vessels of up to 300 meters in length. In 2012, throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port fell by 4.3%, year-on-year, to 24.5 mln tons.