The seaports of Ukraine in 2020 handled 158.86 million tonnes of cargo, which is almost equal to the figure for 2019, the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure reported, citing Minister Vladyslav Krykliy.
“Despite the pandemic and the crisis in 2020, the seaports of Ukraine continued to operate and made great efforts to maintain a sufficient level of transshipment. The result of this work is almost 160 million tonnes of cargo handled per year, which practically reaches the pre-crisis level last year. 2020 was the year of signing first concession agreements in the maritime industry in the ports of Olvia and Kherson with an investment of UAH 3.7 billion for their further modernization and development. And we continue to work on new concessions in the region in 2021,” he said.
The ministry notes that over the year, the transshipment of exported cargo increased to 122.84 million tonnes (1.5% more), cabotage cargo to 2.37 million tonnes (10.7% more). At the same time, negative dynamics of import and transit cargo was recorded.
Most of all the ports handled grain and ore with 48 million tonnes and 44.22 million tonnes, respectively. At the same time, the transshipment of ore over the year increased by 18.5%, ferrous metals by 8.6%, and oil by 2.2 times. Transshipment of containers reached 1.05 million TEU and exceeded the previous year’s figure by 4.1%.
As reported, the seaports of Ukraine handled 160 million tonnes of cargo in 2019, which is 18.4% more compared to 2018.
Ukrainian seaports in January-November of this year handled 145 million tonnes of cargo, which is 1% more than in the same period last year, representatives of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) said during the EBA Infrastructure Day on Thursday.
According to the USPA, the export of goods for 11 months-2020 increased by 3.6%, imports decreased by 8.3%, transit – by 10.3%.
“Exports increased due to such cargo as ore and metal, imports decreased due to ore and coal, transit decreased due to a reduction in ore supplies from the Russian Federation through the port of Pivdenny,” the USPA reported.
According to the published information, in the structure of cargo handling, grains make up 30% of cargo, ore – 28%, ferrous metals – 11%, containers – 8%, other bulk cargo – 6%, oil – 4%, etc.
Most of the cargo (28%) was handled by four seaports: Pivdenny, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Chornomorsk.
As reported, the seaports of Ukraine in 2019 handled 160 million tonnes of cargo, which is 18.4% more compared to 2018.
The seaports of Ukraine in January-October 2020 handled 132.05 million tonnes of cargo, which is 2.2 million tonnes more than in the same period in 2019.
According to the results of the reporting period, the transshipment of export cargo increased to 101.36 million tonnes (+ 3.8%), cabotage – up to 2.07 million tonnes (+ 23.3%), the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported with reference to minister Vladyslav Krykliy on Friday.
Above all, the ports handled grain cargo and ore – 39.4 million tonness and 37.2 million tonnes, respectively. At the same time, the transshipment of ore in 10 months of the current year has grown by 22.3%, ferrous metals – by 9.5%, oils – by 4.6%, and oil fuel – 2.4 times.
Transshipment of containers has reached 869,500 TEU and exceeded the last year’s figure by 7.1%.
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The seaports of Ukraine in January-September 2020 handled, according to recent data, 118.78 million tonnes of cargo, which is 3.7% more compared to the same period in 2019.
According to the latest information on the website of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, transshipment of exported cargo increased to 91.1 million tonnes (5.6% more), cabotage cargo to 1.8 million tonnes (31% more), and transshipment of imported goods decreased to 18 million tonnes (3.1% less), transit to 7.7 million tonnes (5.5% less).
The leaders in terms of transshipment volumes are ore and grain. During this period, the first place was occupied by grain cargo, the transshipment of which amounted to 35.3 million tonnes.
Ore ranked second with the amount of 33.8 million tonnes, which is 25.5% more than the same indicator of the previous year.
Transshipment of ferrous metals increased by 8.9%, to 12.86 million tonnes, oil by 5.6% in the volume of 4.49 million tonnes, and oil by 2.8 times, with a processing volume of 1.6 million tonnes.
Transshipment of containers reached 772,900 TEU and exceeded the last year’s figure by 8.3%.
he seaports of Ukraine in January-August 2020, according to recent data, handled more than 105.77 million tonnes of cargo, which is 5% more compared to the same period in 2019.
According to information on the website of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, transshipment of exported cargo increased to 80.8 million tonnes (5.4% more), imported cargo to 16.1 million tonnes (0.9% more), transit to 7.3 million tonnes (4.6% more), cabotage goods to 1.6 million tonnes (30.8% more).
Grain became the leader in terms of transshipment volumes for the specified period, the transshipment of which amounted to 30.7 million tonnes.
Ore ranked second with 30.2 million tonnes, which is 27.5% more than the same indicator of the previous year.
Pig iron transshipment increased by 49.8%, to 2.3 million tonnes, oil transshipment increased by 4.1%, to 4 million tonnes, crude oil by 2.5 times with a processing volume of 1.4 million tonnes over the specified period.
Transshipment of containers reached 690,600 TEU and exceeded the last year’s figure by 9.2%.
In January-April 2020, the seaports of Ukraine handled more than 55 million tonnes of cargo, which is 12.6% more compared to the same period in 2019.
According to the statement of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority on the state-owned enterprise’s website, traditionally, the leaders in transshipment are grain and ore.
Over the indicated period 18.7 million tonnes (5% more) of grain and 13.8 million tonnes of ore (30.5% more) were handled.
Handling of coal doubled to 2.5 million tonnes and that of crude oil increased by five times to 800,000 tonnes. Transshipment of containers by Ukrainian ports amounted to 357,700 TEU (up by 17.2%).
According to the Sea Ports Authority, handling of exported cargo increased due to a rise in transshipment of grain to 18.2 million tonnes (by 5.3%), iron ore to 10.9 million tonnes (by 45.4%), oil to 2.2 million tonnes (by 8.8%).
Transshipment of imported cargoes increased due to a rise in handling coal to 2.3 million tonnes (by 106.9%) and crude oil to 500,000 tonnes (by 213.6%), and oil products to 400,000 tonnes (by 233.3%).
Transit transportations increase due to a rise in handling ore to 1.1 million tonnes (by 34%) and crude oil to 400,000 tonnes.
Four seaports led in terms of cargo handling: Pivdenny, Mykolaiv, Chornomorsk and Odesa. In general, they processed 47.7 million tonnes of cargoes, which is 87% of the total volume of cargo handling by Ukrainian seaports.
