[3] The port has an immediate access to railways allowing quick transfer of cargo from sea routes to ground transportation.

It consists of several harbors which are divided one from another by a number of jetties, while the port itself is screened off from the open sea by few long breakwaters located in the Odesa Bay.

HPC Ukraina, a subsidiary of Hamburg-based HHLA, has been operating the Container Terminal Odesa (CTO) since 2001.

An administration building "Unified Office" has customs, border protection squad and number of ecological agencies.

The depots have access to railways and pump capabilities of transferring fuel products to cistern railcars.

The terminal has two specialised berths for natural gas (propane-butane, piers 4 and 7) and a reservoir park located two miles away from a harbor that holds 6,000 m3 (210,000 cu ft).

The complex has number of bars, a concert-exhibition hall, a marine gallery, an anchor museum, the Museum of sea fleet of Ukraine exposition, a yacht marina complex, a diving center of the local Poseidon diving club, the Saint Nicholas Church, the four star hotel "Odesa", "Grand Europe" restaurant, and others.

[10] The shipyard was established from the Admiralty Shops of the Black Sea rowing fleet a year before founding of the Odesa city.

During the Soviet times the factory was a main supporting base of the Black Sea Shipping Company.