In January-June the Ukrainian seaports processed 66.3 million tons of cargoes, up by 5% YoY, the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) declared.
In particular, the export cargoes transshipment in the Ukrainian seaports reached 50.9 million tons (up by 5.4%), and import cargoes – 9.4 million tons (up by 17.6%).
Traditionally, the transshipment of agricultural products kept the major growth indices in the export structure of goods. In particular, the transshipment of grains totaled 19.6 million tons (up by 20%), and vegetable oils – 2.9 million tons (up by 33.8%).
According to the announcement, Sea Commercial Port of Yuzhny demonstrated the largest volumes of cargo handling – 22.1 million tons (up by 7.3%), followed by Odessa Commercial Sea Port – 12.3 million tons (up by 5.6%), and Sea Commercial Port of Mykolaiv – 11.4 million tons (up by 6.3%). The specialized sea port Olvia showed the most significant growth of 35.2%, with the general cargo volume at 3.4 million tons.
Almost all cargo types demonstrated a growth of transshipment figures. Thus, the general handling of liquid bulk cargoes increased by 11.4%, and reached 5.7 million tons. The general transshipments of dry cargoes totaled 47.6 million tons (up by 8.1%). Container transshipment totaled 300 thousand TEU (up by 6.2%). The number of export containers reached 132.9 thousand TEU (up by 4.4%), import – 149.2 thousand TEU (up by 4.9%).
Since the beginning of 2017, Ukraine faced a steady growth in cargo handling rates in the seaports. Many factors contributed to such development, including the increased export volumes of grains, and coal imports. However, the industry plans to improve further transshipment rates by starting new investment projects, developing and constructing new port facilities, dredging and revising of the port charges. The above-mentioned measures will contribute to development of even greater dynamics of growth, said the Head of the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, Raivis Veckagans. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
