Cargo turnover of Tuapse Commercial Seaport OJSC amounted through ten months of 2006 to 17 640.24 thou tons (-1.2% against January-October 2005). Transshipment of oil amounted over the reported period to 4 317.20 thou tons (+3.8% against year-on-year result), oil products – 7 563.26 thou tons (- 8.5% against year-on-year result). The company handled 2 662.04 thou tons of coal and coke (+ 4.3%). Transshipment of grain grew over the reported period by 60.6% to 536.38 thou tons. Transshipment of sugar totaled 866.38 thou tons (- 10.3%). Transshipment of ore in January-October decreased 19.5-fold amounting to 3.54 thou tons, metal scrap - 55.4-fold to 1.57 thou tons. The company handled 1 688.97 thou tons of metal (+19.5% against year-on-year result).
Cargo turnover of Accept – Т LLC amounted over the reported period to 27.11 thou tons (- 17.5 %). The company handled 5.12 thou tons of metal scrap (4.5 times as high as y-o-y result). Construction materials – 9.01 thou tons (- 58.8 %), citruses – 1.63 thou tons (in January-October 2005 transshipment of citruses was not carried out), vegetables — 2.04 thou tons (3.1 times as high as y-o-y result). Timber transshipment totaled 8.87 thou tons (+ 25.3%). Container turnover of the company totaled 0.44 thou tons (in January-October 2005 transshipment of containers was not carried out).
The port of Tuapse is located at the territory of Krasnodar region, at the North-East coast of the Black Sea in the upper part of Tuapse Bay. The water area of the port is limited by the Southern, South-Western and Western breakwater structures separating it from the sea. Tuapse is the second largest port at the Russia’s Black Sea coast after Novorossisk to carry out export transshipment of oil products and it is the only ice-free deepwater port to carry out export transshipment of coal. Two stevedoring companies operate in the port: Tuapse Commercial Seaport OJSC (14 berths) and Accept-T LLC (one berth of the Fishing port).