Container throughput of the port of Iljichevsk (Ukraine) up 46% in H1 07, y-o-y
In January-July 2007, container throughput of the port of Iljichevsk (Ukraine) totaled 216,804 TEU (+46%, year-on-year),RZD-Partner reports. UkrTransContainer, operator of the port’s container terminal accounted for 91% of total throughput while the port itself handled 17,811 TEU.
UkrTransContainer transshipped 198,993 TEU (+34%, year-on-year). In the reported period the company arranged direct services from China under agreement with MAERSK LINE. Today the company works with K LINE, ZIM, SHINA SHIPPING, YANG MING.
The port has started independent handling of containers at its deepest berth (No 1). In future the port plans to handle 250,000 TEU per year. The perspectives are based on agreement with CMA CGM, which has transferred part of its business from Odessa to Iljichevsk, and on cooperation with MAERSK LINE, MSC, CSAV NORASIA, EMES.