Throughput of Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Ukraine) up 32% to 1.48 mln t in Jan’13

Over the first month of 2013, Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk handled 1.483 mln tons of cargo , up 32%, year-on-year. According to the stevedore’s press center, the company exceeded the plan by 25%. 

From the beginning of the year the port handled 453,000 tons of general cargo, 122,000 tons of liquid bulk cargo and 908,000 tons of dry bulk cargo.  

In January 2013 the port handled 145 vessels and 16,525 wagons. 
 
Transshipment of grain increased by 98% (to 186,000), ore – by 93% (to 505,000), sulfur – by 25% (to 129,000), general cargo – by 8%, cast iron – by 32%, containers – by 7%, cargo transported by ferries – by 103%.

SE Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk ia a multipurpose international port, one of the largest ports in the Black Sea. The company operates specialized terminals and complexes capable of handling a wide range of cargoes – liquid bulk cargo, dry bulk cargo, general cargo. The port’s 29 berths can accommodated vessels of up to 100,000 tons in deadweight. Designed annual capacity of SCPI exceeds 30 mln tons. 

Container throughput is 1.15 mln TEUs. From 2007 the port can simultaneously handle 3 ocean-going 300-m long container carriers of over 5,000 TEUs in capacity.