Throughput of seaport Temryuk up 1.7 times to 659,560 tonnes in Q1 09

In the first quarter of 2009, seaport Temryuk handled 659,560 tonnes (up 1.74 times), the port states.

In the reported period the port handled 20,792 tonnes of sawn timber, 43,659 tonnes of chemical goods, 61,92 tonnes of non-ferrous metal, 435,62 tonnes of general cargo, 28,788 tonnes of grain.

Commercial seaport of Temryuk is located at Taman coast of the Sea of Azov. In summer 2008, Mechel Group started shipment of coal from the berths of Sotra-Port CJSC (one of the port’s stevedores). In January-March 2009, this stevedoring company handled 414,590 tonnes of cargo (up 2.2 times).