OREANDA-NEWS. January 10, 2012.  Throughput of Ukraine’s Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP) in 2011 grew by 3.7% year-over-year, to 25,621,000, the company said.

Handling of dry bulk cargo grew by 20 percent from a year earlier to15.8 million tons. Shipments of grain rose 37 percent to 3.308 million tons. In 2011, ore volumes surged by 51 percent to 2.577 million tons, handling of raw sugar increased to 631,000 tons (+13.7%).

Odessa port container trade grew by 29 % year-on-year to 453,700 TEUs.

Crude oil shipments slumped by 85% since Odessa stopped handling petroleum transits from Venezuela to Belarus. Exports of metal products dropped by 85.7% compared with last year’s.

State-owned Odessa Commercial Sea Port is a largest port in the Black Sea-Azov basin. The port encompasses 14 ha, 9-km waterfront and 54 berths. The port is able to handle annually 14 million tons of dry cargo and the same volume of petroleum products. Passenger terminal can accommodate 300-m vessels. In 2010, Odessa saw 72 calls of foreign-flagged cruise ships. Last year cargo throughput of OCSP was down 11.8% year-on-year, to 24.7 million tons.