Port of Odessa

Port of Odessa
Port of Odessa
Passenger Terminal of the port.jpg
Port of Odessa Passenger Terminal
Location
Country Ukraine
Location Odessa, Odessa Oblast
Details
Opened 1794
Operated by State Company Odessa Commercial Sea Port
Owned by Sea/River Fleet Administration (government)
Type of harbor Natural/Artificial
Size 109 acres (141 ha)
Available berths 46
Piers 52
Employees 3,500[1] (2007)
General manager Mykola Pavlyuk
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage 31,368,000 tonnes (2007)[2]
Annual container volume 523,881 TEU's (2007)[3]
Passenger traffic 4,000,000 people[4] (2007)
Website www.port.odessa.ua

The Port of Odessa is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes (15 million tonnes dry bulk and 25 million tonnes liquid bulk). Along with ports of Illichivsk and Yuzhny it serves as a major freight and passenger gateway to Ukraine.

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Statistics

In 2007 the Port of Odessa handled 31,368,000 tonnes of cargo and 523,881 TEU's making it the busiest cargo and container port in Ukraine.

The largest cargo volume was in 2002 when the port handled 13.2 million tons of dry cargo and 20.4 million tons of liquid products.[5]

General statistics between 2001 - 2007 [6]
Years 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Grain* 1.236 2.948 1.977 1.638 3.004 2.525 2.188
Sugar* 0.710 1.111 1.881 0.603 0.796 0.467 0.968
Ore, coal* 0.089 0.163 0.125 0.230 0.811 1.274 1.757
Metals* 6.190 7.000 6.501 7.106 6.203 6.556 5.805
Timber* 0.021 0.028 0.040 0.068 0.061 0.048 0.039
Perishables * 0.033 0.064 0.057 0.059 0.161 0.312 0.344
Containers * 0.881 1.242 1.675 2.264 2.851 3.688 4.474
Minerals, Building materials * 0.246 0.174 0.001 0.245 0.024 0.060 0.158
Other* 0.696 0.463 0.204 0.165 0.115 0.167 0.168
Dry cargo* 10.102 13.192 12.461 12.377 14.024 15.095 15.900
Bulked* 18.541 20.400 21.052 18.173 12.822 12.915 15.469
Petroleum* 13.524 12.931 13.457 10.787 7.250 8.483 10.674
Oil products* 4.886 7.230 7.337 6.847 4.917 3.758 4.091
Liquefied gas* 0.118 0.149 0.154 0.380 0.353 0.432 0.448
Vegetable oils* 0.012 0.090 0.104 0.152 0.218 0.173 0.162
Technical oils* 0 0 0 0.007 0.085 0.068 0.093
Total*' 28.642 33.593 33.513 30.550 26.847 28.010 31.369
* figures in millions of tonnes

Terminals

Transit - cargo terminal

The terminal was opened on May 13, 2005 and has a storage area of 51,500 m2.[7]

Universal handling complex № 11

The complex was put into operation on June 26, 2003. UHC is a universal complex, which specializes in the handling of wide cargoes: metal products (armature, billet, wire rod, pipes, angle bar, ore), general cargoes, timber, bulk cargoes and containers.[8]

Oil and gas terminal

The oil and gas terminal has six berths with a total storage capacity of 671,000 m3.[9]

The terminal has two specialised berths for natural gas with a handling capacity of 700,000 tonnes of condensed gas per year.

The oil and gas terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 tonnes per year:

Passenger terminal

The Port of Odessa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Black Sea basin; it handled around 4 million passengers in 2007.[10]

References

  1. ^ Port of Odessa number of employees
  2. ^ Port of Odessa cargo volume
  3. ^ Port of Odessa container volume
  4. ^ Largest passenger terminal in Ukraine
  5. ^ Largest cargo volume in Port of Odessa in 2002
  6. ^ Official figures
  7. ^ Transit cargo terminal
  8. ^ Universal handling complex № 11 terminal
  9. ^ Oil and gas terminal storage capacity
  10. ^ Port of Odessa passenger terminal

External links

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