It is reported that cargo turnover of Commercial Seaports of the Ukraine decreased by 21% YoY within first 9 months 2009 as compared to the corresponding period of 2008.

CSP Uzhny reduced its cargo transhipment volumes by 20.2% within the first nine months of the current year.

Transhipments of CSP Mariupolski decrease by 25.7%.

Within the nine month period of 2009, CSP Reniiski witnessed 48.7 % decrease of its transhipment volumes

Kerchenski CSP, on the contrary increased its transhipments by 11% as compared to the corresponding period of 2008.

Sevastopolski port turnover increased by 2.3% and amounted to 0.3 million tonnes.

It is necessary to remind that Odesski CSP reduced its transhipment volumes by 21.8%YoY and Ilichevsky CSP down by 14.6%YoY in January to September 2009 as compared to the same period of the previous year.

(Source from PortNews)