Nikolayev Commercial Sea Port, located in the mouth of the Southern Bug river, in the northern part of the Dnieper-Bug Liman (Estuary), is an important transport junction in the South of Ukraine, with good prospects for development. It is linked with the Black Sea by the approach channel, which is 44 miles long.

Nikolayev Commercial Sea Port possesses covered warehouses, open storage areas and carrier out operations with general and bulk cargoes, which could contain grain, ore, steel products, tubes, etc. The leading exports are: chemical fertilisers, steel productions, tubes, cotton. The prevailing imports are fruits, store and consumer goods. There are 14 piers in the port. All of them have railroad connections. The port has 12 berths equipped with shore cranes having a lifting capacity of up to 40 tons.

Port accepts the vessels with dimensions not over: