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| MARIUPOL MERCHANT SEA PORT, SE | | Industry | Transport and shipping services | | Export destinations | Turkey, Greece, Israel | | The port is rightly called ‘Sea Gates of Donbass’. The port is situated 180 km, by land, from the big, industrial, Russian city of Rostov, which explains why about 50 per cent of all cargo handled by it is Russian. By the Volgo-Don Canal, the Mariinsk system, and the Belomor-Baltic Canal, the port is connected to all regions of Russia gravitating towards the Volga River, and thus also goes out to the Caspian, Baltic and White Seas. The port’s territory comprises 67,6 ha.; and the total length of its berthage is 3,2 km. The port’s capacities enable it to handle more than 12 million tons of cargo per year. The port provides handling all kinds of cargoes: bulk, dry-bulk, general, heavy-lifts, oversize cargo, liquid, containers, and others. The port has a special area to take lighter carriers vessels, and load/unload them in a closed water area. The port offers ‘board-on-board’ scheme residual fuel oil transshipment handling operations to ensure ecological safety. Unloading/loading frozen cargoes, diverse classes of dangerous cargoes, bulk fertilizers, are carried out by direct scheme. The specialized coal-loading complex enables it to handle up to 5 million tons of coal per year. It is equipped with railway truck tippers, conveyor lines, cargo handling devices, and defrosters for wagons. Its new and very dynamic container terminal provides high-speed handling of container carriers, and delivery of 20- and 40-foot containers by ‘door-to-door’ scheme; its capacity has now reached a turnover of 50,000 TEU per year. The international cargo-passenger complex has been put into operation. Its area is 2.1 hectares, its capacity is 130 people per voyage. There is a motor-depot in the port allowing it to carry out long-distance and foreign-road freightage. The port territory includes three cargo handling areas. Its berths nos. 3–13, and 15, 15a, and 16 are designed for handling general and bulk cargoes. Berth No.14 has a special coal handling complex. The port’s container terminal is situated at berths Nos. 15 and 16. These berths have a special complex for handling container cargoes, and total an area of 34,000 sq. m. They have three ship-to-shore container cranes. The mounted container crane can handle cargo from railway wagons and motor transport. Berths Nos. 1 and 2 are for handling passenger vessels and have a border checkpoint for passengers. The port also has a sea passenger terminal. The sheltered storage area is 15,300 sq. m; the open storage area is 200,600 sq. m. |
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