OREANDA-NEWS. July 3, 2009. In the first half of 2009, Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) handled 14.18 million tonnes of cargo (-20.7%, year-on-year), the port officially reports.

In the 6-month period, the port’s container throughput totaled 109,600 TEU (-41.7%, year-on-year).

Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow to handle more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 14 million tons of oil products annually. Port processes about 30 million tons of cargoes per year, among them more 15 million tons of liquid cargoes, including oil and crude oil, condensed gas and vegetable oil. There are eight handling complexes for dry cargoes processing, passenger complex, oil and container terminals, complex for technical and vegetable oil processing on the 133 hectares of the port territory. In 2008 the port handled 34.5 million tonnes of cargo.