Port of Sevastopol | |
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Location | |
Country | Ukraine[1] |
Location | Sevastopol |
Coordinates | 44°36′56″N 33°31′35″E / 44.61556°N 33.52639°E |
Details | |
Opened | 1875 |
Owned by | Sea/River Fleet Administration (government) |
Type of harbour | Natural/Artificial |
Statistics | |
Website www.morport.sebastopol.ua |
Sevastopol Marine Trade Port (SMTP) is a port in Sevastopol. It is located mainly at the Bay of Sevastopol, and at smaller bays around the Heracles peninsula. The port infrastructure is fully integrated with the city of Sevastopol and naval bases of the Russian Navy and the Black Sea Fleet.
The port had previously been under the sovereignty of Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a formal partition treaty was signed by Ukraine and Russia in 1997. Portions of the port were owned by the private sector.[not verified in body]. The port came under full Russian control when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula in early 2014 after a highly criticized referendum known as the 2014 Crimean status referendum.[2]