Port of Odesa

The port is located at the western shores of the Odesa Bay. It consists of several harbors which are divided one from another by a number of jetties, while the port itself is screened off from the open sea by few long breakwaters located in the Odesa Bay. Just around the southern jetty (Karantyny) located a passenger terminal with a multi-story hotel at the Nova jetty. Towards the middle there is a Ship Maintenance Factory "Ukraina". At the northern portion are located grain and main oil terminals, while at the southern there is a smaller oil terminal amid container loading quays. == History ==

File:Lampi Portrait of DeRibas Hermitage 1796.jpg|Iosif Mikhailovich Deribas File:Odessa as it was in 1854.jpg|Port of Odesa in 1854 The port of Odesa has its origins in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) and the subsequent Treaty of Jassy. In order to secure the new Russian frontier, it was decided to construct a series of fortifications along the Dniester. Construction began in 1793, being overseen by Alexander Suvorov and his chief engineer François-Paul Sainte de Wollant. When choosing a port suitable for enabling military as well as civilian trade, it was quickly found that the newly established cities of Kherson and Nikolayev would be placed too far away. The search for a suitable port was assigned to Iosif Mikhailovich Deribas, who selected the bay of Khadjibey as a suitable location. Deribas presented a report to Prince Platon Zubov, the representative of the Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty. This put Deribas in conflict with Nikolay Mordvinov, who favoured the establishment of a port-city near the settlement of Ochakov. ==Terminals==

File:PortofOdesa S2 2022.jpg|Satellite imagery of the Port of Odesa, 2022 File:Oděsa, přístav.jpg|Container terminal of the Port of Odesa File:Територія Морського вокзалу (Одеса) 02.JPG|Passenger terminal of Odesa Port Container terminal HPC Ukraina, a subsidiary of Hamburg-based HHLA, has been operating the Container Terminal Odesa (CTO) since 2001. The Container Terminal Odesa (CTO) in the port is the largest container terminal in Ukraine. Odesa is networked with the ports of Hamburg, Muuga and Trieste via the logistics group HHLA. Transit - freight (logistic) terminal The terminal was opened on May 13, 2005, and has a storage area of . Oil and gas terminal The oil and gas terminal of the OMTP is the biggest one in Ukraine and sometimes is referred to as the OMTP Oil District. It has six berths with a total storage capacity of 671,000 m3. "Odesnaftoprodukt" (state regional company), "Synthes Oil" (associate of Eksimnaftoprodukt) and a complex of "Ukrloadsystem" for uploading of liquefied gas. The oil district allows to receive tankers with load capabilities from 1,000 to 100,000 tons. Fuel products are transferred through pipelines to reservoirs of the fuel depots. The depots have access to railways and pump capabilities of transferring fuel products to cistern railcars. The terminal has two specialised berths for natural gas (propane-butane, piers 4 and 7) and a reservoir park located two miles away from a harbor that holds . The terminal has a handling capacity of 700,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year. The oil and gas terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 tonnes per year: • 15,300,000 tonnes of oil • 6,200,000 tonnes of fuel oil • 2,500,000 tonnes of diesel oil • 800,000 tonnes of oil products (gasoline and vacuum gas oil) • 700,000 tonnes of condensed gas. The Oil District has a system of automatic protection (water curtain and foam supply). At the ports aquatory (territorial waters) are constantly on duty a fireboat and an oil-spill collector. The port has a ballast water treatment station. Passenger terminal The Port of Odesa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Black Sea basin; it handled around 4 million passengers in 2007. ==Shipyard Ukraina==

The shipyard was established from the Admiralty Shops of the Black Sea rowing fleet a year before founding of the Odesa city. During the Soviet times the factory was a main supporting base of the Black Sea Shipping Company. The area of the wharf is . It can accommodate ships with a displacement of up to 30,000 tons. Piers length is a total of , including for ship maintenance. The depth by piers reaches up to . The cargo lifting capabilities consist of six portal cranes that lift 10-30 tons and two floating cranes one a self-propelled one that lifts 100 tons, another fixed that lifts 5 tons. ==See also==