Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports up 7.6% to 78.77 mln t in Jan-July’14

In January-July 2014, seaports of Ukraine handled  78,779,000 t of cargo (+7.6%, year-on-year) says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

State stevedores under the Ministry of Infrastructure handled 27,850,000 t of cargo (35.4% of the total volume); Private stevedores through all berths handled  50,929,000 t (64.6% of the total volume) including 26,651,000 t of cargo handled by private stevedoring companies through the berths of USPA  (33.8% of the total volume).

Transshipment of export cargo totaled 57,323,000 t (+17.5% against 2013), import – 8,312,000 (-6.2%), transit – 12,761,000 (-4.6%), coastal trade cargo – 384,000 (- 66.6%).

 Seaports’ container throughput totaled 394,567 TEUs (+89.6% against 2013).