ODESA, AUGUST, 3rd, 2009, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE – Total income of the ports in Odesa Oblast made 670 million 226 thousand UAH in six months, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The agency was informed about it today, 3 August, at the press-service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine.

According to the press-service, through January – June, 2009 the income of GE Odesa Merchant Sea Port made 199 million 632 thousand – 85 percent more than in 2008.

Port Yuzhny aquired pure income amounting to 308 million 979 thousand – 315 percent more as compared with the same period in 2008.

Illichivsk Merchant Sea Port received 161 million 615 thousand UAH of pure income that is by 415 percent more than in 2008.