Unique in Ukraine Multimodal Complex is specialized in operations with railway ferry boats and ro-ro vessels. It is located on berths Nos. 26, 27 and 28.

The length of each of the berths Nos. 26 and 27 is 210 m each, the depth alongside the berths is 9,7 m; the length of the berth No. 28 totals 270 m, the depth is 9,6 m.

The Port is the center of two basic railway - ferry lines functioning in the Black Sea: Illichivsk (Ukraine) – Varna (Bulgaria) – Poti/Batumi (Georgia) and Illichivsk (Ukraine) – Derindge (Turkey).

Capacity of the Complex is:

• for operations with wagons – 4.5 million tons of cargo a year;

• for operations with containers and motor vehicles – 260,000 t of cargo a year;

• general cargoes and citrus plants – 70,000 t.

Two rail ferries and two motor vehicles ferries (or ro-ro vessels) can be handled simultaneously.

Complex facilities ensure running of Euro-Asian transport corridor linking the countries of Western Europe, Ukraine, Georgia and Asian countries.

There are five ferry boats, running in railway and ferry lines.

They include Bulgarian ferry boats — “HEROES OF ODESSA” and “HEROES OF SEVASTOPOL” and Ukrainian ferry boats — “HEROES OF SHIPKA” and “HEROES OF PLEVNA”, having the capacity of 108 rail wagons or heavy trucks each.

The ferry boat “GREIFSWALD”, having the capacity of 50 wagons and 50 motor vehicles, runs in the line Illichivsk – Poti.

Travel time of ferry boats:

Illichivsk – Varna - 18 hours

Illichivsk – Poti - 44 hours

Illichivsk – Batumi - 46 hours

llichivsk – Derindge - 27 hours

There is a storage area for about 7000 vehicles and motor-cars, including container and motor vehicles storage yard for 450 containers and 30 trucks with trailers, equipped with two railway tracks to handle car-platforms, loaded with containers and laden trucks.

The Complex has independent entrances for wagons and motor vehicles.

Complex facilities enable to handle 130 thousand of motor vehicles a year.

Loading of wheeled macinery on ferries is carried out in wagons and by self-feed as well.

Loading/unloading of motor vehicles on/from ro-ro vessels is carried out by self-feed.

Check and control post for inspection of cargo and trucks and storage area for dangerous cargo are being operated at the Multimodal Complex.

International transport corridors

One of the most important factors, influencing the port of Illichivsk development and operation, is its favourable position at the junction of main transport routes between Europe and Asia, North and South, Central and Eastern industrially developed regions of Russia and Ukraine and sea communications, running across the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic or Indian oceans.

Some international transport corridors pass via the port of Illichivsk as follows:

Euro-Asian transport corridor (TRACECA);

Cretan Corridor No. 9;

Transport corridor Baltic — Black Sea.

The favorable factor of development of transportations through the port of Illichivsk is its direct affinity to an autobahn Kiev – Odessa.