Seaports of Ukraine increased cargo handling by almost 20%

During January-September 2019, Ukrainian seaports increased their turnover by 19.4% year-on-year to 114.521 million tonnes.

Transmitted by the National Industrial Portal with reference to the data "Administration of the Ukrainian Seaports"

The transshipment of export cargoes during this time increased by 23.5% - to 86.269 million tons, import - by 13.3%, to 18.645 million tons, transit - by 2.4%, to 8.18 million tons. Processing of cabotage cargoes decreased by 12.2% to 1.424 million tons.

Bulk cargo processing increased by 7.7% - up to 8.089 million tons. Bulk cargo transfer increased by 25.2% - up to 82.585 million tons. Processing of piece cargo increased by 6.2% - up to 21.393 million tons.

Container turnover increased by 20.7% to 713 440 TEU. The number of overloaded heavy goods vehicles decreased by 4.4% to 41 855. The transshipment of other piece cargo increased by 15.1% to 792.81 thousand tons.

The leaders in volume of cargo handling were the port "Southern" - 38.658 million tons, the Nikolaev port - 23.883 million tons, the Black Sea port - 18.809 million tons, the Odessa port - 18.152 million tons.