Kherson Merchant Sea port

Director General Uriy Tutushkin.

Address
Kherson Merchant Sea port.
4 Prospect Ushakova, Kherson, 73000, Ukraine.
Ph.: + 380 (552) 223248, 325204, fax: 325252
E-mail: seaport@tlc.kherson.ua

Kherson’s merchant sea port was founded in 1778. Such goods as grain, timber and wool were exported via the port.

By 1900, the port held 4th place among the export centres of Russia.

In Soviet times, the port’s cargo handling turnover reached a peak of 4 million tons a year.

The port is designed to handle 5 million tons of cargo a year.

The port handles general and dry-bulk cargoes. Over 40% of this is mineral fertilizers and bulk or packed chemicals; another 40 % is cereals.

The port also handled all kinds of ferrous metals, cast iron ingots, coke, ferrous alloys, timber, peat.

There is one cargo handling area in Port Kherson for handling general and bulk cargoes. Its berthing line runs 1,262 m. The grain terminal is situated here, including a warehouse (cap. 20,000 t).

Grain from railcars and motor vehicles is poured into special bins, and then goes to the warehouse via a conveyor. A direct scheme of grain handling is also envisaged.

There is a facility to parcel mineral fertilizers into 50 kg bags; which are then packed into soft containers (cap. 2 t).