Port of Odesa
{{short_description|Commercial seaport in Ukraine}}
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| name = Port of Odesa
| image = 2017 Одеса територія Морського вокзалу.jpg
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| image_caption = Passenger terminal and Hotel Odesa
| country = Ukraine
| location = Odesa
| coordinates = {{coord|46|30|13|N|30|44|40|E|source:kolossus-ruwiki|display=inline,title}}
| opened = 1794
| operated = State Company Odesa Marine Trade Port, private operators
| owner = Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority
| type = Natural/artificial
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| size = {{cvt|109|acres}}
| berths = 46
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| piers = 52
| employees = 3,500[http://icp.donauhanse.net/index.php?id=466&tx_Port_pi1 Port of Odesa number of employees]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (2007)
| leadershiptitle = General Manager
| leader = Ihor Tkachuk
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| cargotonnage = 50,000,000 tonnes{{Cite web |last=themesflat.com |title=Одеський морський торговельний порт - Технічні характеристики |trans-title=Odesa sea trade port - Technical characteristics |url=https://omtp.com.ua/about-port/specifications |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=omtp.com.ua |language=uk}}
| containervolume = 523,881 TEU's (2007)
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| passengertraffic = 4,000,000 people
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The Port of Odesa or Odesa Commercial Seaport ({{langx|uk|Одеський морський торговельний порт|Odeskyi morskyi torhovelnyi port}}), located near Odesa, is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes (15 million tonnes dry bulk and 25 million tonnes liquid bulk), the only port of Ukraine capable of accepting Panamax class vessels.{{Cite web |last=morhoz.od.gov.ua |script-title=uk:Морські порти України та Одеської області: підсумки 2019 року |trans-title=Sea ports of Ukraine and Odesa region: results of 2019 |url=https://morhoz.od.gov.ua/morski-porty-ukrayiny-ta-odeskoyi-oblasti-pidsumky-2019-roku/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=morhoz.od.gov.ua |language=uk}} 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 (1958) and Pivdennyi (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
File:Oděsa, přístav.jpg of the Port of Odesa.]]
=Container terminal=
HPC Ukraina, a subsidiary of Hamburg-based HHLA, 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 Hamburg, Muuga and Trieste via the logistics group HHLA.{{Cite web |last=Ullyett |first=Richard |date=2020-11-13 |title=Next stage of expansion increases capacity at HHLA Container Terminal Odessa |url=https://www.portseurope.com/next-stage-of-expansion-increases-capacity-at-hhla-container-terminal-odessa/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=PortSEurope |language=en-GB}}Terminalbetreiber in Estland gekauft. In: Schiff & Hafen, 7/2018, p 9; "Hamburger Hafenkonzern investiert groß in Triest" In: Die Presse, 29 September 2020.{{Cite web |date=2019-03-01 |title=HHLA sucht Terminals auch jenseits von Hamburg |url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article189642977/HHLA-sucht-Terminals-auch-jenseits-von-Hamburg.html |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=DIE WELT |language=de}}
=Transit - freight (logistic) terminal=
The terminal was opened on May 13, 2005, and has a storage area of {{cvt|51,500|m2}}. The terminal has two warehouses with a total area of {{convert|2363.8|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} including {{convert|60.3|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Order of the Ministry of Infrastructure #379 of July 6, 2012 |url=http://document.ua/pro-zatverdzhennja-pereliku-portovih-zasobiv-jaki-pidpadayut-doc132501.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418082357/http://document.ua/pro-zatverdzhennja-pereliku-portovih-zasobiv-jaki-pidpadayut-doc132501.html |archive-date=April 18, 2017 |access-date=March 12, 2013}}
=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),[http://www.securities.com/Public/company-profile/UA/PJSC__EKSIMNAFTOPRODUKT___%D0%95%D0%9A%D0%A1%D0%86%D0%9C%D0%9D%D0%90%D0%A4%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A0%D0%9E%D0%94%D0%A3%D0%9A%D0%A2__en_2049661.html Company profile for Eksimnaftoprodukt] "Odesnaftoprodukt" (state regional company),[https://archive.today/20130411190052/http://www.securities.com/Public/company-profile/UA/%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%82__%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0__Odesnaftoprodukt__Odesa__ru_2035793.html Company profile for Odesnaftoprodukt] "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 (propane-butane, piers 4 and 7) and a reservoir park located two miles away from a harbor that holds {{convert|6000|m3|cuft|abbr=on}}. The terminal has a handling capacity of 700,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year.
The oil and gas terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 tonnes per year:
- 15,300,000 tonnes of oil
- 6,200,000 tonnes of fuel oil
- 2,500,000 tonnes of diesel oil
- 800,000 tonnes of oil products (gasoline and vacuum gas oil)
- 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=
File:Територія Морського вокзалу (Одеса) 02.JPG
The Port of Odesa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Black Sea basin; it handled around 4 million passengers in 2007. The terminal can simultaneously receive five motor ships at piers, totals length of which reaches {{convert|1370|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The depth near the piers varies from {{convert|9.5|to|11.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The port facilities allow the docking of ships up to a length of {{convert|300|m|ft|abbr=on}}.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
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.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
The port of Odesa has its own learning center.{{clarify|date=March 2014}}
Odesa Hotel closed as of 2011.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-09 |script-title=ru:Одесский морской вокзал |trans-title=Odesa sea station |url=https://poskot.od.ua/odesskij-morskoj-vokzal/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=poskot.od.ua |language=ru}}
Shipyard Ukraina
File:Odessa as it was in 1854.jpg
The shipyard was established from the Admiralty Shops of the Black Sea rowing fleet a year before founding of the Odesa city. During the Soviet times the factory was a main supporting base of the Black Sea Shipping Company.
The area of the wharf is {{convert|75524|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}. It can accommodate ships with a displacement of up to 30,000 tons. Piers length is a total of {{convert|1230|m|ft|abbr=on}}, including {{convert|570|m|ft|abbr=on}} for ship maintenance. The depth by piers reaches up to {{convert|7.1|m|ft|abbr=on}}. 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{{when|date=March 2014}} to serve the port of Odesa:{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
- 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{{when|date=March 2014}} to serve the port of Odesa:{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
- 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
See also
References
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External links
- [https://marad.gov.ua/en State Service for Maritime, Inland Waterway Transport and Shipping of Ukraine]
- [https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:30.766/centery:46.501/zoom:14 Ship wharf Ukraine].
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