In the first month of 2019, the overall cargo turnover in the seaports of Ukraine increased by 3.4% YoY, and totaled 11.1 million tons, declared the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA).
In particular, the transshipment of export cargoes totaled 8.7 million tons (+12.5%). At the same time, the shipment volumes of grain cargoes totaled 3.8 million tons (+21.1%).
Also, the transshipment of import cargoes decreased by 23.3% compared with January 2018, and totaled 1.6 million tons.
The Kherson Commercial Sea Port increased the rates of cargo handling by more than 27%, and the Sea Commercial Port of Yuzhny – over 10%. The seaports of Berdyansk, Chornomorsk, Odessa, and Reni increased the transshipment volumes.
In January the Ukrainian seaports processed 856 vessels, down by 57 units YoY. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)