Six Ukrainian seaports see growth in 2017

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 - In 2017, six Ukrainian seaports showed steady growth in cargo turnover, and the number of seaports with a cargo turnover of more than 1 million tons has increased to 10. In 2016 Yuzhny sea port processed 39.298 million tons, compared to already 41.889 million tons in 2017, up 6.6%. The highest growth rate is the turnover of packaged goods; up to 2,108 million tons, 88,1% more than in 2016. Also, the cargo turnover of coal almost doubled, reaching 7.15 million tons. The highest growth rate was shown by the smallest cargo shipping port of Ukraine - Ust-Dunajsk. Over the year, the port increased reloading by 113.4% - from 25,400 tons to 54,200 tons. The doubling of cargo turnover was ensured mainly by an increase in the handling of grain from 13,600 tons in 2016 to 33,000 tons in 2017 (+142.7%), as well as petroleum products from 11,800 thousand tons to 17,200 tons (+45.8%). The volume of cargo handling in the Mykolaiv Sea Port increased by 5% or 1.1 million tons and reached 23.533 million tons. The greatest increase was the processing of chemical mineral fertilizers (+109.8%). Odessa port in 2017 processed 24.120 million tons of cargo. Although this was a slight decrease (-4.5%) compared to 2016, the port remains in the top three largest ports of the country. The key to the port of Odessa in 2017 was the handling of containers, the volume of which grew by 8.1% and amounted to 519,000 TEU. The seaport of Chornomorsk increased cargo turnover by 10.6% from 15.942 million tons in 2016 to 17.633 million tons in 2017. At the same time, the increase in transshipment rates occurred almost throughout the range of goods. The maximum growth of 178.7% showed the turnover of building materials. In total, 1.239 million tons were processed, which is 795,000 tons more than in 2016, when the figure was 444,000 tons. Specialized sea port Olbia in 2017 processed 6.88 million tons of cargo, which is 342,000 tons or 5.2% more than in 2016. By the main type of cargo - dry cargo bulk cargo - the growth was 868,000 tons or +15,3% compared with 2016. In 2017, the Reni Sea Port processed 1.125 million tons of cargo, which is 15,7% more than the previous year (972,370 tons). Thanks to this, Reni port was the 10th largest Ukrainian port in the world, whose annual turnover exceeded 1 million tons. As a reminder, in 2017, by sea ports of Ukraine almost 133 million tons were processed , which is 0.9% higher than the previous period. Source: USPA Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2018.

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