For eight months of 2020, the general cargo turnover in the seaports of Ukraine increased by 5% (5 mln tonnes) compared with the same period last year, and totaled 105.77 mln tonnes. In particular, the transshipment of export cargoes totaled 80.8 mln tonnes (up 5.4%), import cargoes – 16.1 mln tonnes (up 0.9%), transit cargoes – 7.3 mln tonnes (up 4.6%), coastwise – 1.6 mln tonnes (up 30.8%), declared the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA).
Particularly, Ukrainian seaports transshipped 30.7 mln tonnes of grain cargoes. Moreover, the transshipment volumes of vegetable oils reached 4 mln tonnes, up 4.1% compared to January-August of 2019.
APK Inforn