OREANDA-NEWS. May 6, 2008. In January-April, 2008, container throughput of Odessa port totaled 164,613 TEU (+13.5%, year-on-year), Odessa Commercial Sea Port reports.

In April, transshipment of containers totaled 44,870 TEU (+8.9%, year-on-year).

Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black Sea-Azov range. The Port of Odessa is situated in the northwest part of the Black Sea (46°32'N, 30°54'Е) on the historically founded merchant ways between East and West.

Technical facilities of the port allow to process more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 24 million tons of oil products annually. Developed infrastructure allows delivering cargo by auto, railway, marine and river transport. Specialized terminals of the port with large park of handling equipment and hauling devices allow handling wide range of cargoes.

Port processes about 30 million tons of cargoes per year, among them more 15 million tons of liquid cargoes, including oil and crude oil, condensed gas and vegetable oil.

Port's universality provides handling practically of any kind of cargoes: oil and crude oil in bulk, condensed gas; tropical and vegetable oil, technical oil, containers, non-ferrous and ferrous metal; ore, cast iron, raw sugar in bulk; grain in bulk; paper, perishable cargoes in containers; different general cargoes in bags, boxes, parcels, barrels and integrated cargo units.

There are eight handling complexes for dry cargoes processing, passenger complex, oil and container terminals, complex for technical and vegetable oil processing on the 133 hectares of the port territory. The modern container terminal with annual capacity more than 500.000 TEU is also to your services. Special (free) Economic Zone "Porto-Franko" is situated on the Quarantine pier.

46 protected berths with total length of quay line more than 8000 m allow to accept the vessels with cargo carrying capacity up to 100 thousand tons, up to 300 m length and up to 13, 0 m draft.