Throughput of Ukraine’s commercial seaports down 21.5% to 71 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

In January-August 2009, commercial seaports of Ukraine handled 71.046 million tonnes of cargo (-21.5%, year-on-year), Markets & Business refers to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. In particular, Yuzhny port (Odessa region) handled 11.89 million tonnes of cargo(-19.5%) Nikolayev – 5.18 million tonnes (-19.6%), Kherson – 2.083 million tonnes (-17%).

As it was reported earlier, throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port fell by 22.2%, year-on-year, to 18.43 million tonnes.