Port of Odessa - Cảng Odessa - Ukraine

Details
Opened:    1794
Operated by:    State Company Odessa Commercial Sea Port
Owned by:    Sea/River Fleet Administration (government)
Type of harbor:    Natural/Artificial
Size:   109 acres (141 ha)
Available berths:    46
Piers:    52
Employees:    3,500[1] (2007)
General manager:    Mykola Pavlyuk

Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage    31,368,000 tonnes (2007)[2]

Annual container volume    523,881 TEU's (2007)[3]

Passenger traffic    4,000,000 people[4] (2007)

Website    www.port.odessa.ua

The Port of Odessa is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes (15 million tonnes dry bulk and 25 million tonnes liquid bulk). Along with ports of Illichivsk and Yuzhny it serves as a major freight and passenger gateway to Ukraine.
Contents

•    1 Statistics
•    2 Terminals
o    2.1 Transit - cargo terminal
o    2.2 Universal handling complex № 11
o    2.3 Oil and gas terminal
o    2.4 Passenger terminal
•    3 References
•    4 External links

Statistics
In 2007 the Port of Odessa handled 31,368,000 tonnes of cargo and 523,881 TEU's making it the busiest cargo and container port in Ukraine.
The largest cargo volume was in 2002 when the port handled 13.2 million tons of dry cargo and 20.4 million tons of liquid products.[5]
General statistics between 2001 - 2007 [6]

Years    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006    2007
Grain*
1.236    2.948    1.977    1.638    3.004    2.525    2.188
Sugar*
0.710    1.111    1.881    0.603    0.796    0.467    0.968
Ore, coal*
0.089    0.163    0.125    0.230    0.811    1.274    1.757
Metals*
6.190    7.000    6.501    7.106    6.203    6.556    5.805
Timber*
0.021    0.028    0.040    0.068    0.061    0.048    0.039
Perishables *
0.033    0.064    0.057    0.059    0.161    0.312    0.344
Containers *
0.881    1.242    1.675    2.264    2.851    3.688    4.474
Minerals, Building materials *
0.246    0.174    0.001    0.245    0.024    0.060    0.158
Other*
0.696    0.463    0.204    0.165    0.115    0.167    0.168
Dry cargo*
10.102    13.192    12.461    12.377    14.024    15.095    15.900
Bulked*
18.541    20.400    21.052    18.173    12.822    12.915    15.469
Petroleum*
13.524    12.931    13.457    10.787    7.250    8.483    10.674
Oil products*
4.886    7.230    7.337    6.847    4.917    3.758    4.091
Liquefied gas*
0.118    0.149    0.154    0.380    0.353    0.432    0.448
Vegetable oils*
0.012    0.090    0.104    0.152    0.218    0.173    0.162
Technical oils*
0    0    0    0.007    0.085    0.068    0.093
Total*'    28.642    33.593    33.513    30.550    26.847    28.010    31.369
* figures in millions of tonnes
 Terminals
Transit - cargo terminal
The terminal was opened on May 13, 2005 and has a storage area of 51,500 m2.[7]
 Universal handling complex № 11
The complex was put into operation on June 26, 2003. UHC is a universal complex, which specializes in the handling of wide cargoes: metal products (armature, billet, wire rod, pipes, angle bar, ore), general cargoes, timber, bulk cargoes and containers.[8]
 Oil and gas terminal
The oil and gas terminal has six berths with a total storage capacity of 671,000 m3.[9]
The terminal has two specialised berths for natural gas with a handling capacity of 700,000 tonnes of condensed gas per year.
The oil and gas terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 tonnes per year:
•    15,300,000 tonnes of oil
•    6,200,000 tonnes of fuel oil
•    2,500,000 tonnes of diesel oil
•    800,000 tonnes of oil products (gasoline, vacuum gas oil)
•    700,000 tonnes of condensed gas.
Passenger terminal
The Port of Odessa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Black Sea basin; it handled around 4 million passengers in 2007.[10]

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