KIEV: According to the online data of the Ukrainian Seaports Authority in January 2017 the volume of cargo handling in Ukrainian seaports reached 10 million 032 thousand tons, which is 14.6% more than in the similar period of 2016.
Export cargo handling totaled 8 million 094 thousand tons (30.3% growth as compared to 2016), import 1 million 423 thousand tons (9% decrease compared with the same period in 2016).
Transit cargo handling amounted to 475 thousand tons (50% of the previous year’s indicators). Cabotage totaled to 39.3 thousand tons.
Containers handling increased by 30.5% during the reporting period and amounted to 48,911 TEU.
The state port operators owned by the Ministry of Infrastructure handled 1 million 825 thousand tons (18.2% of total volume). Other port operators (mostly privately owned) handled 8 million 206 thousand tons (81.8% of total). In particular, the port operators (mostly privately owned) at USPA’s berths handled 4 million 170 thousand tons (41.6% of total).
Almost twofold growth was registered in specialized seaport “Oktiabrsk” (+86.6%). Furthermore, the growth of turnover showed the ports of Kherson (+33.1%), “Yuzhnyi” (+20.9%), Odessa (+20.4%), Illichivsk (+16.3%) and Mykolaiv (+14.8%).
