Throughput of Ukrainian seaports up 6.5% to 103.2 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

In January-August 2014, seaports of Ukraine handled 103.2 mln t of cargo (+6.5%, year-on-year), says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

State stevedores under the Ministry of Infrastructure handled 35.602 mln t of cargo (34.5% of the total volume). Private stevedores through all berths handled  67.602 mln t (65.5% of the total volume) including 35.176 mln t by private stevedoring companies through the berths of USPA  (34% of the total volume).

Transshipment of export cargo totaled 74.835 mln t (+15%, year-on-year), import – 11.149 mln t (-16.5%), transit – 15.820 mln t (+5.7%), coastal trade cargo – 1.400 mln t (-15.7%).  Seaports’ container throughput totaled 507,723 TEUs (87.9% of the previous year result).