The total container throughput capacity of the port amounts to 1.15M TEU. The storage facilities enable to keep simultaneously up to 26,000 TEU, 18,000 stuffed and 8,000 empty ones among them. Storage capacity of the refrigerator area amounts to 606 plugs. Containers are loaded and unloaded from vessels by means of container ship-to-shore cranes. Container carriages inwards the port and their pickup for consignees are performed by road and railway transport. Container handling is carried out at 5 berths.

Terminal Information

Approach

Leading Lights of the Sukhoy Liman should be followed when proceeding to port. A traffic separation scheme is in operation for the vessels approaching from the SE, and is indicated on the charts.

There is a traffic roundabout on the onward route to Odessa branches NNW.The approach channel is 1200 m long, width 140 m and the depth is 13.5 mtrs' speed is limited to 6 knots. The draught of inbound vessels must not exceed 11.5 meters.

Anchorages

Anchorage can be obtained in the outer roads SE of the port entrance, at distance of about 2 miles offshore, in a depth of 20 m; holding ground mud and clay. There is a separate anchorage area for vessels of up to 5000 grt. The outer roads are exposed to winds blowing from the NE to SW through S.

Pilotage

Pilot boards at the outer roads in the vicinity of the mid-channel light buoy. In the event of bad weather, the place of embarkation may be changed. Navigation is permitted at any time of the day or night. All vessel movements in the port limits are regulated from the port control station, from where traffic control lights are exhibited from a mast 52 m in height.

Grain Handling Terminal

The terminal specialized in handling of export-import grain cargoes is situated in the area of berths Numbers 16, 17, close to the station carriage rolling stock Chornomorsk – port that is used for accumulation of wagons before supplying them to the terminal that provides the required productivity of discharging. Length of each berth totals 200 m, the depths amount to 11.5 m. 38 silo towers with the capacity of 5,000 t each, provide for simultaneous storage of 190,000 t of grain. Four stations for wagons discharging and two ships loader units having capacity of 700 t and 900 t per hour, provide for discharging of 250 wagons and shipment of 20,000 t of grain a day. Grain cargo transported to the port by trucks is discharged on special trestles of two trucks unloading stations. Two vessels of Panamax type with displacement of up to 70,000 t each can be handled simultaneously at the terminal. The throughput capacity of the complex amounts to 4 million t. per year.

Specialized Complex for Storage and Handling of Liquid Vegetable Oil

The complex specialized in storage and handling of liquid vegetable oils is located on the upper plateau at the rear of berths Nos. 8-11; oil pipeline is fed out onto berth No. 11. The complex is equipped with electronic system of control, storage and pump-over. The reservoir park enables to store simultaneously 90,000 tons of cargo.

Vegetable oils are supplied from the tank battery to the berths by technological pipelines connecting five pump stations. There are 6 separate technological pipelines at the complex serving for loading oils of various sorts. They carry out loading of up to 12,000 t of cargo aboard a ship (it depends on vessel type), as well as discharging of 88 railway tanks and 50 road tankers per day. The complex is equipped with wage and platform truck scales located in immediate proximity to the discharge jetties. The throughput capacity of the complex amounts to 1.5 million t of vegetable oils per year.

Container Capacities

Today Chornomorsk port possesses the leading positions among Ukrainian ports involved in container handling.

This is a multipurpose logistics complex rendering the full range of services related to containerized cargoes like: