Throughput of Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk down 4% to 3.47 in QI'14

In January-March 2014, SE Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk handled 3,479,100 t of cargo (-4%, year-on-year), the port’s statistics says.

In particular, the port handled 1,450.5 t of general cargo; 1,715.5 t of dry bulk cargo.

In the first quarter period of 2014, the company handled 342 vessels and 37,199 wagons.

In March, the company’s throughput hit 1.21 mln t including 460,600 t of general cargo (including 3,798 TIR trucks and 20,688 containers) and 675,600 t of dry bulk cargo.

In March, the port handled 133 vessels and 13,538 wagons.

SE Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk is 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 accommodate vessels of up to 100,000 tonnes in deadweight. Designed annual capacity of SCPI exceeds 30 mln tonnes. 

The port’s container capacity 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.