Contents

Map of the Port
Introduction
Address
Contact
Radio contact
Mariupol Port
     Specifications
     Cargo Handling
     Cargo transport analysis
     Shipping Lines

Introduction

Mariupol is a city in Donetsk region, a big industrial center of the Ukraine. It was founded in 1779 in the period of the south of Russia economical development. Most developed became metallurgy industry. Two leading Ukrainian integrated iron-and-steel works – one named after Illich (built in 1897) and the other – Azovstal (1933) – produce cast iron, steel, rolled metal, pipes. Such industries as chemical-recovery coke, machine building, food are also highly developed in the city. There are also heavy engineering and metal construction plants, ship repair yard, etc. The city is also a climatic and healing mud resort. The population is above 500 thousand people.

The creation of Port Mariupol was a logical event in the impetuous industrial development of Southern Russia in the second half of the 19th century. September 2, 1889, when 18 train cars loaded with coal first arrived onto its quay, is recognized as the date when Port Mariupol operations began. The port played a very significant role in the region’s industrial development and that of the whole country. Indeed, in terms of volume of assignations, during the period 1867–1904, Port Mariupol occupied third place among all of Russia’s ports, without playing a military role.

Today Port Mariupol is reckoned one of the largest ports of Ukraine. It is the biggest, most developed port in the Azov Sea.

The port is rightly called “Sea Gates of Donbass”. Through 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.

Address

Mariupol Sea Port,
99 Admiral Lunin Av., Mariupol,
341010, Ukraine
E-mail: all@marport.net

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Mariupol Port

Specifications

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 has modern equipment, loading devices and mechanisms for handling all kinds of incoming cargoes: bulk, dry-bulk, general, heavy-lift, non-dimensional, liquid, containerized, 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 refrigerated cargoes, grain, raw sugar, diverse classes of dangerous cargoes, fertilizers in bulk, 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 train cars loaded with frozen cargoes.

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 thousand containers (TEU international standards) per year.

There is a motor-depot in the port allowing it to carry out long-distance and foreign-road freightage.

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Cargo transport analysis, (in ’000s of tns.)

Import

Export

Transit

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