Ukraine
Ukraine is located in Southeast Europe and borders Russia, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Belarus. It has an extensive southern coastline with the Azov and Black Seas. Its seaports include Odessa, Kherson, Berdyansk and Mariupol. On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014. Russia now controls the Azov Sea and occupies the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol. It has also blockaded all Ukrainian Black Sea ports which are currently closed to all shipping. (Updated 24.06.2022)
Ukraine introduces new inland waterways law
On January 1, 2022, the Law of Ukraine “On Inland Water Transport” entered into force – January 3, 2022 For more than a decade, Ukraine has...
Kherson Sea Commercial Port under concessionaire ownership
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 3, 2022 – The ownership of Kherson Sea Commercial Port has been transferred to new concessionaires LLC...
Ukrainian government approves USPA financial plan for 2022
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 30, 2021 – The Government has approved the financial plan of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) for 2022....
Ukrainian ports handled 2.9% less containers in 2021
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 27, 2021 – In January-November 2021, the sea ports of Ukraine handled 924,100 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit),...
Ukraine’s Reni seaport handles 1.3 million tons of cargo in Jan-Nov 2021
Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – In the first 11 months of 2021, Reni port handled total cargo of 1.3 million tons, up 59.35% on the same...
Ukraine’s Pivdenny seaport increases November grain traffic
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2021 – In the month of November, Pivdenny seaport handled 1.34 million tons of grain, a monthly record for the...
Cargo traffic on the Dnieper totalled 3.21 million tons, up +34.9% in 11-month period
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – In the first eleven months of 2021, cargo traffic on the Dnieper, the main river in Ukraine, totalled 3.21...
Ukraine’s Mariupol port sees 11-month cargo traffic down slightly
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 7, 2021 – In January-November 2021, cargo handling at Mariupol seaport totaled 6.3 million tons, down -3%...
In January-November 2021, the seaports of Ukraine handled 136.96 million tons of cargo, down -6%
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – In January-November 2021, the seaports of Ukraine handled 136.96 million tons of cargo,...
QTerminals Olvia officially takes over port concession
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 3, 2021 – QTerminals Olvia concession, part of the QTerminals Group, has taken over state-owned Olvia Stevedoring...
After Russia’s inspections on the way in, now the bad weather delays the exit from the Azov Sea
Taman, Russia (PortSEurope) December 2, 2021 – Over 160 ships were awaiting passage through the Kerch Strait, which on December 1 was impossible to navigate...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the board of directors and heads of companies – members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine, (PortSEurope) December 1, 2021 – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the management of leading international companies,...
Conditions have been created for the development of multimodal transportation in Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the draft law №4258, which gives a start for the development of multimodal transportation in Ukraine – November...
EU to help Ukraine develop a National Transport Master Plan
On November 8-10, the Ministry of Infrastructure hosted a 3-day meeting on the development of the National Transport Master Plan – November 11, 2021 The...
Izmail on the Danube – another Ukrainian river port that handles Black Sea cargo is expanding
Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 10, 2021 – Izmail sea port plans to build two transshipment complexes with a total cargo capacity of 300,000...
Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel meets with Israel’s Eilat Mayor
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 9, 2021 – The Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel, Yevhen Korniychuk, has met with with the mayor of Eilat port-city,...
Ukraine’s Olbia port sees 10-month cargo traffic up over 12%
Total cargo volume handled by the seaport of Olbia for 10 months of 2021 was 3.8 million tons of cargo. This figure is 417,450 tons or 12.3% more than the...