Seven-month cargo volume at Ukraine's Kherson port fell 3.5% to 2.06 million tonnes
Overall freight throughput of terminal operators at the Port of Kherson based in Ukraine between January and July 2016 totaled 2.06 million tonnes, or a 3.5% decline on the seven-month period a year ago, the Centre for Transport Strategies (CTS), citing Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA).
In the reporting period the port operators handled 81,000 tonnes of liquid bulk cargo (an increase of 3.1 times y-o-y) and 1,58 million tonnes of dry bulk cargo (+ 6%).
The largest share of freight traffic, or more than a third, accounts for grain cargoes, which jumped by 60.8% to 674,000 tonnes. The volume includes 455,000 tonnes of grain (a 2.2 times growth).
Shipments of ore reached 17,000 tonnes (1.8 times growth), of coke – 31,000 tonnes (up 4.1 times), of construction materials – 40,000 tonnes (a 69.8% drop), of chemical and mineral fertilizers – 99,000 tonnes (- 3.8%), "other goods" – 722,000 tonnes.
Break bulk traffic in January-July plummeted by 35.8% to 394,000 tonnes, including 219,000 tonnes of metal roll products (- 26.1%), 61,000 tonnes of srap (- 58.7%), 31,000 tonnes of timber cargo (- 56.2%), etc.
Kherson Commercial Sea Port (founded in 1778) is a modern port and one of the biggest in Ukraine. The port is located in the Dnieper delta 53 miles off the Black Sea. It is an important river and sea junction of Ukraine. Projected capacity of the Port of Kherson is 5 million tonnes of different cargo. The port has 17 gantry cranes, 6 floating cranes, and 135 units of other handling equipment. In 2015 cargo throughput at the Port of Kherson grew by 6% year-on-year to 4.13 million tonnes. There are several enterprises operating at the port: Kherson Shipyard, SE Kherson Sea Commercial Port, Dnepr Cargo Limited, LLC Chersonese, LLC VtorMetExport, UkrRechFlot and others.
