Skadovsk Merchant Sea port

Director General Vasiliy Marchenko.

Address
Skadovsk Merchant Sea Port.
2 Proletarskaya St, Skadovsk, Kherson Province, 75700, Ukraine.
Phones: + 380 (5537) 22507, 22074, fax: 24590

A century ago, a rich landowner, S. Skadovsky, came up with the marvelous idea of building a port here for exporting local Tavria wheat.

He successfully carried out the idea by building a port on the shores of the sheltered and rather deep Djarylgachsky Bay in the Black Sea on the site of a Tatar fishermen’s settlement, Ali-Agok, which means calm pier.

Skadovsk’s first pier was built in 1894; and the first foreign ship arrived there to load grain at the beginning of July.

Today, Port Skadovsk handles mainly cargo/passenger and ferry shipping on the Turkey line. The port points of Genichesk and Khorly are assigned to Port Skadovsk.

The port can handle up to 500,000 t bulk, 100,000 t general cargoes and up to 100,000 t grain a year.

The port ferry complex can handle up to 7,200 heavy motor vehicles a year.

In USSR times, the port specialized in sand quarrying and transportation, but because of a crisis in the construction sector, sand quarrying is reduced up to 350,000 a year. But the port was opened for international transportation. Shipping lines for motor vehicles from/to Turkey well organized.

The port can handle four different types of vessels simultaneously: a Ro-Ro ship; a bulk carrier (max.3,000 dwt); a universal vessel (max. 2,000 dwt): and a tanker (the oil berths are currently under reconstruction).

Port territory totals 8.5 hectares. Persuant to the general strategy of the port’s development, its territory may be increased to 16.5 hectares. The total length of its berth line is 929 m, 536 m of which are in working condition. The port has 1 cargo area and 6 berths. The operative berths are Nos. 1, 2 and 3. There are no railway access lines.

The port has two sheltered warehouses at berth No. 3: the one for general cargoes is 448 sq. m in area, and its capacity is 3,538 cu m, the second one is for grain and has an area of 1,798 sq. m, and capacity of 9,967 cu m.

The port’s southern berth, No. 6, has a licensed warehouse with an area of 515.3 sq. m, and capacity of 3,538 cu m. Berths Nos. 1, 6 have open storage spaces with a total area of 10,324 sq. m.