International Ilyichevsk marine transport port
The International sea port of Ilyichevsk has appeared on sea commercial maps recently. Because of it became clear that the Odessa sea port would not be able to cope with the having increased trade operations and to handle all coming cargoes. And thus the first piles of a new sea port as well as of Ilyichevsk city were driven not far than 18 kilometers from the Odessa regional centre, at the Dry liman shore in January 1958.
In 1961 the sea port of Ilyichevsk became an independent and one of the major ports that extended its foreign trade ties and worked the whole year round in the North-West of Black sea region. The port has increased significantly the turnover of cargo between Ukraine and many countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
At the present time the International Ilyichevsk commercial seaport cooperates with more than 150 ports of 110 countries around the world and transships more than 20 million tons of bulk cargo such as metal, grain, fertilizer, oil and container cargoes per year. The facilities of port consists of 28 berths and a container terminal that are equipped with a modern cranes, railway grid and truck roads allowing to transship cargo efficiently onto railway flatcar, trucks, container ships and vice versa for a further sea transport of cargo.
The port is developing and modernizing its capacities permanently and deepening its port aqua zone. The deepening of the seabed has allowed to call all new container vessels in with the draught of more than 14 m and length over 300 m, carrying more than 6,500 sea containers at a time.
“Marine-Trans” Ltd renders a wide range of marine transport services and makes the door-to-door service to its customers via the seaport of Ilyichevsk.