Izmail Merchant Sea port

Director General Valentin Kotelniy.

Address
Izmail Merchant Sea port.
7 Portovaya Str., Izmail, 68600, Ukraine.
Telex: Port Ux 232286;
Ph./fax: +380 (4841) 25601, 25469

Izmail is favourably situated as a junction of trade routes connecting countries of Central and Northern Europe with those of the Black and Mediterranean Seas.

It is known that as soon as the city of Izmail was established in 1810, foreign merchant vessels began calling at it.

Nowadays, the enterprises of Izmail are generally connected with the shipping business.

Izmail Merchant Sea Port is one of the modern and highly mechanized ports on the Danube River.

The most important development period for Port Izmail was between 1968-1992, when handling complexes for general cargoes, bulk cargoes and containers were built.

The port can accommodate vessels that meet the following specifications:

• sea-going cargo ships with: deadweight up to 10,000–15,000 tons; draft in full load up to 7.2 m; and length up to 150 m. max. 30 m width.;
• river cargo ships with: deadweight of up to 5,000 tons; draft in full load up to 2.7–3.5 m; and length up to 150 m.

The port has modern equipment, loading devices, and machinery for handling all kinds of incoming cargoes, such as: bulk, dry-bulk, packaged, and containers.

The port is designed to handle up to 7.7 million tons of cargo per year.

The territory of the port comprises 23 berths which extend for 2,534.2 m; the depth at the berths is from 3.5 m to 7.5 m.

The port is divided into three cargo handling complexes, as follows.

Complex No.1 (berths Nos.1–8) handles mostly packaged cargoes in bags, equipment, agricultural equipment, metals, packed cargoes, and grain with a total capacity of 1,205,000 tns per year.

Complex No.2 (berths Nos.19–22) is intended for handling bulk cargoes: ore, coal, coke, concentrates, iron ore, pellets, metal products, and grain with a total capacity of 5,400,000 tns per year.

Complex No.2 also includes a specialized container terminal (berths Nos.12–14), where ships with draft up to 6.5 m can be handled.

The total length of the three container berths is 250 m., and there are nine gantry cranes with lifting capacity of 40 tns. 2,200 containers can be stored there, simultaneously. The cargo capacity of this container terminal is 660,000 tons cargoes per year.

Complex No.3 (berths Nos.16–18, 23–26) handles bulk and general cargoes: equipment, coal, metal, ore, and grain.

The transshipment of grain cargoes is carried out using Vigan type pneumatic handler, which can transfer 100 tns per hour.

The port has at its disposal 8 sheltered warehouses whose total area is 24,300 sq. m. The open cargo storage area is 162,800 sq. m.