Odessa, Ukraine, 2 Zhukovskogo str.
Tel.: +38 048 702 73 72, +38 048 737 64 03,
+38 048 737 64 04, +38 048 734 54 25
Fax: +38 048 734 54 21
Odessa, Ukraine, 2 Zhukovskogo str.
Tel.: +38 048 702 73 72, +38 048 737 64 03,
+38 048 737 64 04, +38 048 734 54 25
Fax: +38 048 734 54 21
The city of Odessa and hence the famous international Odessa commercial sea port was found more than 215 years ago. In 1794, May 27 the Empress Catherine II signed a Decree on the foundation of a new city with a commercial Harbor and military harbors at the north-western part of the Black Sea, in the area of the old fortress Hadgibey.
Seeing a particularly well-situated southern lands of the northwest coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of historical mercantile paths between West and East and understanding how useful that area could be for the Russian Empire, the Empress Catherine II said to build a pier for mercantile vessels and military harbor at that place and to let any mercantile vessel enter the harbor. And three month later the first wooden piles of a future marine city were driven there.
And those historical piles put the beginning of the city of Odessa and the Odessa commercial sea port. The Odessa port became one of the major port in the Azov-Black Sea region due to its geographically and climate advantageous location and the well-set up foreign economic ties with West, South and East.
At the present time the Odessa commercial seaport has more than 40 berths and terminals including container ones. About 50 million tons of various dry and liquid cargos: oil, grains, grain oils, metal and containers are shipped by vessels to any direction over the world each year.
