During January-April 2018, the sea ports of Ukraine handled 257.5 thousand TEU, up 38.7% year-on-year.
By way of comparison, Russia’s largest Black Sea port of Novorossiysk handled over 302 thousand TEU (+22.5%) during the same period.
According to the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, export container traffic via the country’s ports made 124.3 thousand TEU, up 56.4% year-on-year. Import grew 31.9 % up to 124.9 thousand TEU.
Transit dropped 24.6% down to 8.3 thousand TEU. Cabotage was non-existent.
Odessa handled slightly over 190 thousand TEU during the first quarter of 2018, up 14.5% year-on-year.
Yuzhny also grew – up 35.2% to 26.5 thousand TEU.
Chernomorsk (formerly known as Ilyichevsk) handled 40.7 thousand TEU compared to just 2 TEU in January-March 2017.
All of these were handled by Ilyichevsk Sea Fishing Port, which previously was not included into the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority’s statistics. According to SeaNews’ data, it grew 7.6% year-on-year.
Olvia Specialized Sea Port (formerly, Oktyabrsk) handled 266 TEU increasing its last year’s January-March result 14.8-fold.