The Port of Odesa or Odesa Sea Port ( uk, Одеський морський порт, translit=Odeskyi morskyi port), located near

Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrati ...

, is the largest Ukrainian

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and one of the largest ports in the

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basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes (15 million tonnes

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and 25 million tonnes liquid bulk). The port has an immediate access to railways allowing quick transfer of cargo from sea routes to ground transportation. Along with its younger satellite ports of

Chornomorsk Chornomorsk ( uk, Чорномо́рськ, ), formerly Illichivsk (, translit. ''Illichivs'k''), is a city in Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast (province) of south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk. The city is located around the ...

(1958) and

Yuzhne Yuzhne ( uk, Ю́жне, ; formerly: Южний, ''Yuzhnyi'',Internet portal of Yuzhny
translated as "southern"

(1973), the Port of Odesa is a major freight and passenger transportation hub of Ukraine.

Location

The port is located at the western shores of the Odesa Bay. It consists of several harbors which are divided one from another by a number of jetties, while the port itself is screened off from the open sea by few long breakwaters located in the Odesa Bay. Just around the southern jetty (Karantyny) located a passenger terminal with a multi-story hotel at the Nova jetty. Towards the middle there is a Ship Maintenance Factory "Ukraina". At the northern portion are located grain and main oil terminals, while at the southern there is a smaller oil terminal amid container loading quays.

Terminals

Container terminal

HPC Ukraina, a subsidiary of Hamburg-based

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, has been operating the Container Terminal Odesa (CTO) since 2001. The Container Terminal Odesa (CTO) in the port is the largest container terminal in Ukraine. Odesa is networked with the ports of

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, Muuga and

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via the logistics group

Transit - freight (logistic) terminal

The terminal was opened on May 13, 2005, and has a storage area of . The terminal has two warehouses with a total area of including for valuable cargo. Warehouses work around the clock and equipped with rack systems designed for storage of goods. A warehouse ramp allows the simultaneous staging of nine vehicles. The area has an alarm system, surveillance system, fire-fighting system as well as ventilation system. There is an office complex that provides a space leasing capabilities for up to 30 offices. An administration building "Unified Office" has customs, border protection squad and number of ecological agencies. Extra security for the whole port is provided by the Maritime Security Agency of Ukraine that accounted for 15 port sites of the OMTP.

Oil and gas terminal

The oil and gas terminal of the OMTP is the biggest one in Ukraine and sometimes is referred to as the OMTP Oil District. It has six berths with a total storage capacity of 671,000 m³. It serves number of fuel depots such as "Eksimnaftoprodukt" (former Soviet oil export-import company), "Odesnaftoprodukt" (state regional company), "Synthes Oil" (associate of Eksimnaftoprodukt) and a complex of "Ukrloadsystem" for uploading of liquefied gas. The oil district allows to receive tankers with load capabilities from 1,000 to 100,000 tons. Fuel products are transferred through pipelines to reservoirs of the fuel depots. The depots have access to railways and pump capabilities of transferring fuel products to cistern railcars. The terminal has two specialised berths for

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

( propane- butane, piers 4 and 7) and a reservoir park located two miles away from a harbor that holds . The terminal has a handling capacity of 700,000 tonnes of

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...

per year. The

oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) & lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturated ...

and

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terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 tonnes per year: *15,300,000 tonnes of

*6,200,000 tonnes of fuel oil *2,500,000 tonnes of

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*800,000 tonnes of

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(

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and

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) *700,000 tonnes of condensed gas. The Oil District has a system of automatic protection (water curtain and foam supply). At the ports aquatory (territorial waters) are constantly on duty a fireboat and an oil-spill collector. The port has a ballast water treatment station.

Passenger terminal

The Port of Odesa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the

basin; it handled around 4 million

passengers A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. Th ...

in 2007. The terminal can simultaneously receive five

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s at piers, totals length of which reaches . The depth near the piers varies from . The port facilities allow the docking of ships up to a length of . The terminal has a car parking with 24-hour security. The complex has number of bars, a concert-exhibition hall, a marine gallery, an anchor museum, the Museum of sea fleet of Ukraine exposition, a yacht marina complex, a diving center of the local Poseidon diving club, the Saint Nicholas Church, the four star hotel "Odesa", "Grand Europe" restaurant, and others. The port of Odesa has its own learning center. Odesa Hotel closed as of 2011.

Shipyard Ukraina

The shipyard was established from the Admiralty Shops of the Black Sea rowing fleet a year before founding of the

city. During the Soviet times the factory was a main supporting base of the

Black Sea Shipping Company Black Sea Shipping Company (russian: Черноморское морское пароходство, uk, Чорноморське морське пароплавство) is a Ukrainian shipping company based in Kyiv. The company was established ...

. The area of the wharf is . It can accommodate ships with a displacement of up to 30,000 tons. Piers length is a total of , including for ship maintenance. The depth by piers reaches up to . The cargo lifting capabilities consist of six portal cranes that lift 10-30 tons and two floating cranes one a self-propelled one that lifts 100 tons, another fixed that lifts 5 tons.

Stevedore companies

Several stevedore companies exist to serve the port of Odesa: * Brooklyn * Prista-Oil * Trans Service International * Olimpex Coupe International * MetalsUkraine Corp, Ltd * Novolog * Novotech Terminal * HPC Ukraine * OPPK (Odesa Port Transshipment Complex) * UNTC (Ukrainian National Stevedore Company) * BK Port

Forwarding

Several forwarding companies exist to serve the port of Odesa: * Euro terminal logistics company * Formag * Marine Transportation Center * Global Trans Logistic * Port Marine Group * Exim Service * Negociant * Global Ocean Link * London Sky * Black Sea Shipping * Laman Shipping Agency * Arrant Service * Illich Trans * Panda Shipping * DAO Logistics * Stoles Logistic * CMT Ltd * Alpha Trans * CSS Plus * Mitridat Odesa * Block Bug Systems * MTA Service Ltd * Ever Trans Logistic * Green Integrated Logistics * Fargo Shipping * Algiya * Farcont LTD

References

External links

Ukrmorrichflot State Administration website

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