Port of Mariupol

The Port of Mariupol or Mariupol Sea Port (Ukrainian: Маріупольський морський порт) is located in Mariupol, Ukraine on the north-western coast of the Taganrog Bay of the Azov sea (Mariupol, Donetsk region). Port is governed by the port authority managed by Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

Sea port terminal in 2010
Not to be confused with Azov ship-repair factory.

The berthing line of the seaport is 3.9 km (22 berths), with depths down to 9.75 meters. The port is served by one port railway station "Mariupol-Port". The total length of the railways of the port is 27,1 km. Highways are adjacent to the port.

The cargo turnover of Mariupol seaport in 2016 amounted to 7,6 million tons, the capacity of Mariupol seaport reaches 18,8 million tons / year.

The port has the largest repair facility of its class on the Sea of Azov.

History

The birth of port of Mariupol was a logical continuation of rapid development of the industrial Russian South in the second half of 19th century. The shallow wharf in a mouth of Kalmius River did not meet the development requirements of fleet along with mining and metallurgical industry of Donets basin (Donbas).

In 1886 there started the construction of a deepwater port in Mariupol, near Zintseva balka (locality).

The construction was planned for five years, but was finished in three – under pressure from industrialists.

On 2 September [O.S. 21 August] 1889 on the port's embankment were brought 18 railcars carrying coal (about 2,000 poods).

After a prayer in a presence of the Russian Minister of Railways and the Mariupol city governor Kharazhaev, there began the first loading onto a steamship of the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade "Medveditsa", which on 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1889 left for its destination.

This date is considered as the start date of the port's operation. The port had huge significance for the development of industry in a region and whole country.[1] It would be enough to say that in its volume of assignments in a period of 1867-1904, the port of Mariupol that did not have military designation held third place in Russia.

References
  1. Konstantinova Victoria, Lyman Igor, Ignatova Anastasiya. European Vector of the Northern Azov in the Imperial Period: British Consular Reports about Italian Shipping. — Berdyansk: Tkachuk O.V., 2016. — 184 p.


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