Sea Commercial Port of lllichivsk is determined by its key position at the cross-roads of main transport routes between Europe and Asia, North and South, Central and Eastern industrially developed regions of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and the shipping routes running across the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

At present the port has international relationships with almost 100 countries of the world.

The port of Illichivsk is situated on the North coast of the Black Sea and it's position is defined by the bearings: Latitude - 46°19' North, Longitude - 30°41' East.

The port has:

facilities enabling to handle over 30,0 million tons of cargoes annually;

29 modern berths with total quay line of 6000 m;

facilities which can provide simultaneous storage of 1,5 million tons of cargoes;

total open storage area –575,000 sq. m; warehouse area – 28,000 sq. m;

navigable depths:

- in outer roadstead – up to 21 m;

- in approach channel – 15 m;

- in port water area – 7,5 – 13 m;

railway infrastructure – 3 entrances for moving rail wagons into the port, railway tracks up to 10 lines running into the territory, maximal possibility to carry out wagon turnover up to 1500 wagons a day;

road infrastructure with advanced network of internal highways, allowing to make entrance of motor transport through three port checkpoints.

Multimodal Complex of the port has independent entrances for rail wagons and motor transport.

The port creates:

conditions for realization of the state policy in sphere of transport branch development and statement of Ukraine as a transit country;

favorable business atmosphere for cooperation with partners and investors;

safe working conditions for the personnel.

The port provides:

handling and storage of foreign trade cargoes of the wide nomenclature, namely:

general cargoes - metal products of any assortments, containers of all types, equipment, heavyweiht and oversized cargoes, food products, any tare cargoes, automobile and supersize motor-vehicles, etc;

liquid cargoes – any food liquid cargoes, including vegetable oils, wine, molasses and others, spirits, liquid chemical cargoes, oil and oil products, liquefied petroleum gas;

bulk cargoes – grain cargoes, soya beans meal, chemical cargoes, sulphur, all kinds of ore raw material, mineral and building cargoes etc.

high intensity of handling on all port terminals and complexes;

modern level of port works due to skilled personnel;

processing of all flags and types vessels of up to 13 m draught and deadweight of up to 100,000 t;

round-the-year navigation and icebreaking pilotage;

control for safe navigation in the port and in its approaches;

performance of requirements of Convention SOLAS-74 and the ISPS Code ;

environment protection in the port territory and water area;

constant information exchange with clientele about presence and movement of cargoes and vehicles.

The port renders following services:

transferring-forwarding;

stuffing containers;

storage of cargoes in the port customs-license warehouse;

customs broker, services of marks and preparation of cargoes;

towages, maintenance and repair of fleet;

supplying ships with water at berths and in roadstead;

collection of bilge and ballast waters, food wastes from the ships;

cargoes transfer by own heavyweight trucks;

development of technologies on handling unique heavyweiht and oversized cargoes in weight up to 400 t. with use of floating cranes (including applications of cargo owners);

international telephone, facsimile communication, etc.