News
11.01.2010
Cargo transshipment at SCPI of Ukraine fell 13,8% - to 16.3 million tons last year
Cargo transshipment at the state-run Illichevsk Commercial Seaport "(SCPI, Odessa region, Ukraine) decreased over 12 months, 2009 by 13,8% compared with 2008 - to 16.286 million tones. According to port authorities, cargo handling for December amounted to 1 million 198 thousand tons, while in comparison with the previous year, turnover of SCPI for December of this year decreased by 7.8%, including the handling of general cargo that was down 23,1%; handling of tanker cargo up 5,2%, as well as bulked cargo at 7,5%.
The highest growth rates for December of this year compared with the same period in 2008 yielded: vegetable oil (10.3%), wheat (17.6%), ore (6.8%), as well as cargo ferry (+31.1%).
The largest decrease compared to the same period of last year, the port said, came in transshipments of automobiles - by 83.3%.
The volume of containers handled at the port in weight equivalents for December, 2009 decreased by 4.5%, or at 22.000 TEU, 28.2% lower of the figures in December 2008.
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