OREANDA-NEWS. December 4, 2008. In January-November 2008, commercial seaport of Odessa handled 31.608 million tonnes of cargo (+0.8%, against January-December 2007), the port states. In the 11-month period, the port handled 16.012 million tonnes of dry cargo and 15.270 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo.

Commenting the given event, the 1st deputy of the general manager of the SE "OCSP" Yuriy Vaskov notified that a present year could see a record throughput for the history of Odessa port.
“Efforts of administration and stevedore companies on participation of new goods traffics were completed with success: for 9 months there was a growth of cargo handling practically on all directions - dry cargoes, bulk, containers and etc. Calculations have showed that by the end of the year we step over the border of 34th million tons. But a crisis interfered....,” Mr. Vaskov said.

The highest volume of cargo turnover of the enterprise was fixed in 2002 year - 33,6 million t.
Odessa Commercial Sea Port is one of the largest ports of the Black-Azov Sea Basin. Technical facilities of the port allow to process more than 14 million tons of dry cargoes and 14 million tons of oil products annually     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. 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. 54 protected berths with total length of quay line more than 9,000 m allow to accept the vessels with cargo carrying capacity up to 100,000 tonnes, up to 300 m length and up to 13.0 m draft.