Throughput of Odessa port (Ukraine) up 5.2% to 1.83 mln t in Jan'14

In January 2014, Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) handled 1.83 mln t of cargo (+5.2%, year-on-year), press center of the port authority says.

The growth was mainly driven by the increase in transshipment of grain (606,500 t (+36%)) and liquid bulk cargo (507,900 (+74%)). 

The transshipment of liquid bulk cargo was boosted with the resumption of operations at Odessa refinery which is supplied with crude oil from Novorossiysk via the port of Odessa.