OREANDA-NEWS. November 18, 2011. Cargo traffic at the port Temryuk in January-October 2011 increased by 29.8 percent over the same period of 2010, to 2,180,000 tons, the Port Authority said.

Ten-month volume of outbound cargoes includes 131,500 tons of timber cargo, 19,500 tons of scrap metal, 97,600 tons of chemicals, 1,180,500 tons of general cargo, 256,700 tons of grain cargo, 97,000 tons of fertilizers, 73,800 tons of non-ferrous metals and 323,000 tons petroleum products.

LPG throughput of LLC Maktren-Nafta for the period totaled 85,700 tons.

Port of Temryuk is located on the Taman seashore of the Azov Sea. The port has 1,2km-long waterfront. The port of Temryuk handles primarily general cargoes, round timber, lumber, metal. In 2010, throughput of the port of Temryuk declined by 7.4% year-over-year to 1.95 million tons.


LLC Maktren-Nafta is the only Russian terminal of projected annual capacity of 1 million tons, designed for year-round reception, storage and handling of liquefied gases. Waterfront facilities of the terminal and the access channel enable the port to accommodate vessels of capacity of up to 5,000 cbm.