Odesa port has found a buyer for cranes worth almost 30 million

The state enterprise Odesa Commercial Sea Port has held an auction for the sale of two Condor portal cranes.

The corresponding announcement was published in the system "Prozorro. Sale" system.

The auction took place on September 9, and the starting price of the two lots - UAH 29 million 547.2 thousand - eventually rose to UAH 29 million 842.8 thousand. The winner was Attollo Granum, a limited liability company. According to the YouControl service, the LLC was registered in Odesa in 2023 on Mytna Square, which is not far from the port.

Portal, port crane is a full-swing jib crane, the swinging part of which is mounted on a portal that moves along rails laid on the ground or overpass.

It was a three-round English auction, when participants submit their closed bids before the start. Potential buyers do not know whether there are other competitors and do not see each other's bids. The electronic trading system ranks the bids from the lowest to the highest, and the one who made the highest (closed) price offer has the right of last resort in each round. This gives him the highest chance of winning. The auction starts when at least two bidders have registered for the auction. However, in certain destinations, a lot can be bought by the only registered bidder at the price he offered. During three rounds that last three minutes each, participants compete for the lot and raise their bids. When the auction ends, all information about the participants is disclosed.

Prior to that, the state-owned Odesa Port enterprise put up for sale the Admiral De Ribas vessel along with its equipment. The vessel, built in 1994, was sold with equipment.

Main data of the vessel: general cargo, flag: Ukraine, home port: Odesa, place of construction: Slovakia, gross tonnage (GRT): 2,446, net registered tonnage (NRT): 957, length: 81.8 meters, beam 12.8 meters, height of the side: 7.1 meters, draft: 5.48 meters, deadweight: 3,680 tons, hull material: steel. The vessel was out of service from December 26, 2017 to November 21, 2019. The vessel has been operated in bareboat charter since November 21, 2019, but no one was interested in the vessel.