Port Ilyichevsk handles first 8,000teu boxship this year
Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Port Ilyichevsk) on November 27, for the first time this year has handled the Super Post Panamax container ship Teno, owned by Maersk, the port press service said.
The ship was handled at the terminal "Ilyichevsk".
The M/V Teno is the largest ship docked at the port this year. The vessel’s length -299 m, beam - 46 m, draft - 9.3 m, displacement – 88,586 tons, DWT – 94,526 tons.
"Today the tonnage of the leading container lines’ fleet has increased substantially. To handle regularly this class of ships we plan to implement an ambitious dredging program to deepen the operating water area and the approach channel to 17 meters. This is not just a requirement of the time, this is the urgent market need," the port’s chief Alexander Grigorashenko said.
State-owned Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk (Ilyichevsk) ranks among Ukraine’s top 4 seaports. The Port of Ilyichevsk encompasses 346 ha, 6km of waterfront with 29 berths. Its handling and warehouse facilities enable import/export freight flows of over 30 million tons a year. The port’s container capacity is 1.15 mln TEUs. Since 2007, the port has been able to accommodate ocean-going 300-m-long container ships. The container ships are loaded / unloaded at by 5 berths.
