Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) up 2% to 6.5 mln t in QI'15

In January-March 2015, Odessa Commercial Sea Port handled 6,528,800 t of cargo (+2%, year-on-year), says the press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

In the reported period, transshipment of grain totaled 1,785,300 against 1,787,900 in QI'14 while transshipment of metal products doubled to 1,530,100 t.

Three of the port’s eight largest stevedoring companies increased their throughput in the 3-month period of 2015: Novotech-Terminal Ltd. - 419,500 t (+ 77.2%), Metalsukraine Corp. Ltd. - 602,500 t (+45.7%), Brooklyn-Kiev Ltd. —1,498,100 t (+ 29.8%).

Odessa Commercial Sea Port operates in one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow handling of more than 14 million tonnes of dry cargoes and 24 million tonnes of liquid cargoes annually. The port’s passenger terminal accepts vessels of up to 300 meters in length. In 2014, throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port climbed by 6.1%, year-on-year, to 24.5 mln tonnes.