Odessa celebrates leap in throughput

The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year before. This 41% increase, notes public relations deputy general director Svetlana Yarovaya, can be attributed to a number of factors, including improved organisation of the terminal, the introduction of new equipment and working methods, and improvement to the CTIS system.