Freight throughput at Yeysk port edged down 1.6% in H1 2015 to 1.4 million tonnes
Freight traffic at the seaport of Yeysk based in Krasnodar Territory, Russia in January-June 2015 fell by 1.6% on the same period of 2014 and totaled 1,406,800 tonnes, the IAA PortNews regional correspondent reports citing the Yeysk Port Harbourmaster Sergey Grechkin.
Grain shipments through the port's bulk terminal soared by 38.6% to 496,600 tonnes, coal exports rose by 5.6% to 364,300 tonnes, oil products volume jumped by 59.6% to 100,200 tonnes.
Exports gained 7.3% to 1,235,100 tonnes while imports, by contrast, plummeted by 2.7 times to 63,400 tonnes, and transit cargo volume shrank by 32.5% to 56,100 tonnes. Coastal traffic increased by 1.9 times to 52,200 tonnes.
In the six-month period, 10,400 tonnes of bunker fuel were supplied to 306 ships that entered the port of Yeysk. A year earlier there were 279 bunkering operations (8,600 tonnes of fuel).
The Port of Yeysk Authority recorded 389 arrivals and 400 departures versus 389 / 400 in 2014.
The sea port of Yeisk located in the Krasnodar Territory in the southwestern part of Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea. Currently, the port has 12 cargo berths and one passenger berth with two oil terminals completed recently. The port is accessible to ships with a draft of 4.5 m and length of 150 m.
