Port of Odessa

Port of Odessa
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 (2007)
General manager	Mykola Pavlyuk
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage	31,368,000 tonnes (2007)
Annual container volume	523,881 TEU's (2007)
Passenger traffic	4,000,000 people (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.

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.

General statistics between 2001 - 2007

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.

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.

Oil and gas terminal

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

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:

• 15,300,000 tonnes of oil
• 6,200,000 tonnes of fuel oil
• 2,500,000 tonnes of diesel oil
• 800,000 tonnes of oil products (gasoline, vacuum gas oil)
• 700,000 tonnes of condensed gas.

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.

External links

• Ukrmorrichflot State Administration website
• Odessa Sea Port - Sights of Odessa Ukraine. Tourist information