Throughput of Ukraine’s state ports up 15% in H1 07, y-o-y
In January-June 2007, Ukraine’s state port complex (19 commercial seaports) handled 62.051 million tonnes (+15%, year-on-year), Ukraine’s Transport and Communications Ministry reports according to RZD-Partner. The growth made 8.073 million tonnes including 6.7 falling on transit (+29%). Total volume of transit cargo handled by Ukraine’s state ports amounted to 26.94 million tonnes. Export grew by 0.2% (+53 thou tonnes) to 27.652 million tonnes.
The highest growth of transit cargo transportation was demonstrated by the ports of Iljichevsk (+71.9%), Izmail (+51.6%) and Nikolaev (+94.5%). The port of Kherson increased transit cargo transshipment by over 2.5-fold, the port of Reni - 1.5 times, the port of Odessa increased its transit cargo transshipment by 44.5%, while the leader was the port of Feodosia. It increased transshipment of transit cargo from 1.4 thou tonnes to 81.6 thou tonnes. The highest growth of export cargo transshipment was demonstrated by the ports of Berdynsk (+86.7%), Mariupol (+23.7%) and Feodosia (+26.8%).