Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports down 9.8% to 74 mln t in 7M’16

In January-July 2016, seaports of Ukraine handled 74,060,000 t of cargo (-9.8%), says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

Transshipment of export cargo totaled 59,190,000 t (-1.4%), imports – 9,282,000 t (-10.1%), transit - 6,285,000 t (57.62% of 7M’15 results), inland traffic – 2,303,000 (59.6% of 7M’15 results).

Container throughput in seaports of Ukraine totaled 336,892 TEUs (+22.5%, year-on-year).

State stevedores under the Ministry of Infrastructure handled  24,476,000 t (33% of total volume). Other port operators (mostly private operators) handled  49,583,000 t (67% of total volume) including 28,777,000 t handled via USPA berths (38.9% of total volume).