General Description
Location: The commercial sea port of Nikolaev (also known as Mykolayiv) is located at the mouth of the Yuzhny Bug River (the Southern Bug), in the northern part of the Dnieper, the Bug estuary.
General overview: The port has 14 berths that handle ferrous and non-ferrous metals, bulk fertiliser, equipment, bulk grain and foodstuffs. The port is open for navigation all year round, but in winter traffic through the approach channel is permitted only in convoys escorted by ice breakers. Ice begins to form in the second half of December and finally disappears in the channel and estuary in the first half of March.
Traffic figures : Approx 5,000,000t of general and bulk cargoes handled annually.
Load line zone : Summer Zone for vessels over 100m in length and Winter Seasonal Area for vessels of 100m or less in length, Winter Dec 1 to Feb 28/29, Summer Mar 1 to Nov 30.
Max size : Max draught 9.8m (FW), max length 215m.