Odesa region’s Pivdennyi port consolidated its position as Ukraine’s premier sea port last year, increasing cargo by 14.5% yoy, and accounting for 39% for all of Ukraine’s waterborne trade.

Odesa region’s Pivdennyi port consolidated its position as Ukraine’s premier sea port last year, increasing cargo by 14.5% yoy, and accounting for 39% for all of Ukraine’s waterborne trade. Ukraine’s five largest ports accounted for 92% of its 159 million tons of water borne cargo, reports the Sea Port Authority. But growth was only at Pivdennyi (formerly Yuzhny), where cargo grew to 62 million tons, and at Mariupol, on the Azov, where cargo was up 8% yoy, to 7 million tons. At Mykolaiv, cargo was down 10%, to 30 million tons. At Odesa region’s two other big ports, cargo was down by 9% at Chornomorsk, to 24 million tons; and by 8% at Odesa, to 23 million tons.