In January-March 2018, seaports of Ukraine handled 21.8 million tonnes of cargo, up 1.1%, year-on-year, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.
Transshipment of import cargo grew by 30% to 5.6 million tonnes including 1.9 million tonnes of ore (+20.7%), 1.4 million tonnes of coal (+24.1%) and 544,000 t of oil (+51%). Exports totaled 23.8 million tonnes (7.4%). The highest growth was demonstrated in the segment of ferrous metal - 4.2 million tonnes (+17%) including 2.6 million tonnes of rolled metal (+0.8%).
Transshipment of transit cargo grew by 38.4% to 3.2 million tonnes.
Container throughput climbed by 38.8% to 2,525 thou tonnes.
From the beginning of 2018 seaports of Ukraine handled 2,853 vessels, up 9.7% (345 units) more as compared with the same period of 2017.