Ukraine's Port of Berdyansk cargo volumes soared 9 times in February to 313,500 tonnes
Aggregate cargo throughput at the terminals of operators of the Port of Berdyansk, Ukraine in February 2015 increased by nine-fold from the same period a year earlier to 313,500 tonnes, the Ukrainian Ports Authority said.
The state-owned port operator Berdyansk Commercial Sea Port handled 300,200 tonnes, while Novaya Khortytsya handled 13,300 tonnes.
Shipments of export cargo at the seaport in February jumped 46.7% to 146,400 tonnes. Coastal shipping freight traffic volume totaled 167,100 tonnes (+53.3%).
Berdyansk Commercial Sea Port is a maritime intermodal transport hub of Zaporozhye region of Ukraine. The port is located in the north-eastern part of the Gulf of Berdyansk of the Sea of Azov. The port handles export, import, transit and short sea trade cargoes. The port includes outer harbor, an access channel and the harbor of Berdyansk. The latter consists of two basins, West and East, which comprise inner harbour. The harbor has the 20-km-long, 90-m-wide access channel, 8.55 m in depth and with maximum draft of 7.9 m., and the fairway № 54. In 2014 cargo throughput at the port of Berdyansk grew by 47.8% to 3.19 million tonnes.