Port of Mariupol
Location
Mariupol Port's position is defined by the bearings: Latitude - 47° 03' North, Longitude - 37° 30' East. It is situated in northwestern part of Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea, 14 miles from the entry into the Bay. Time zone - GMT +2 hours.
Average depth in the roads is 12m and it allows to handle ships of any carrying capacity. This fact puts the Port of Mariupol into more favourable position in comparison with other ports of the Azov Sea. Navigation in the Port of Mariupol is all year round. Average navigation durability with ice steering (in case of severe winter from December to March) - 86 days.
Twenty-four-hours and safe steering of ships in any weather is provided with "Vessel Traffic Surveillance Centre "Rascat" (VTS Centre "Rascat").
The Port is equipped with all modern communications including satellite one.
The Port takes ships with length up to 240 m and draught up to 8 m.
Territory of the Port is 67,6 hectares.
Length of the Port berth line is 3,2 km.
Storage capacity of warehouses is 11 thousand m2.
Storage capacity of sheds is 170 thousand m2.
The nearest Sea Port are Berdyanskiy, Taganrog, Yeiskiy, Kerchenskiy.
Airports: Mariupol (within the city),
Donetsk - 120 km,
Zaporozh'ye - 220 km,
Dnepropetrovsk - 300 km,
Rostov - 180 km.
The Port handles a wide range of cargoes with diverse geography.
Cargoes sent and taken by the Port have addresses in 60 countries of the world.
The Port of Mariupol is connected with 152 Ports of all continents.
Container terminals
New highly productive container terminal provides high-speed handling container trucks and delivery of 20- and 40-pounds containers according to the variant "from door to door".
Carrying capacity is up to 50 thousand containers per year, evaluation in 20 pounds containers of international standards.
The construction of the new container terminal is finished. It will allow to process more than 50 thousand 20 foot containers per one year.
The Port handles such cargoes:
- Metals of all grades and cross-sec-tions, non-ferrous and ferrous slabs, rolls, coils, packages and others;
- Raw iron ingots;
- Tubes of large and small diameters;
- Different ores;
- Concentrate pellets;
- Ferroalloys;
- Coal;
- Coke and oilcoke;
- Alumina;
- Clays;
- All kinds of fertilizers;
- Lumped and granulated sulphur;
- Equipment, including non-dimensional and heavy-weight;
- Mazut by "board-on-board" variant;
- Grain in bulk;
- Food cargoes of all denominations (including citrus fruits, tinned food, frozen food);
- Contained (20 and 40 pound containers);
- Packages;
- Loading and unloading of lightertrains.
The Port of Mariupol offers services:
- Loading and unloading of ships, cleaning of ship rooms after unloading;
- Transport-forwarding and warehouse handling of cargoes;
- Transhipment of cargoes;
- Drawing up of all complex cargo docu-ments on getting and delivering of cargoes;
- Allowing vacant berths or room at the outer harbour for prerepair preparation of ships, general supplies, small repairs to ships, standing out and other needs;
- Registration of ship coming and leaving;
- Fastening and special fastening of cargoes;
- Allowing room at the outer harbour for execution of fumigation and de-contamination.
Azov Shiprepairing Plant located in the harbour can offer repair services for hull and mechanisms of ships.
There is also maintenance base of fleet technical servicing.
