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Berdyansk

Berdiansk or Berdyansk is a port city in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast in south-eastern Ukraine. It is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, after two months of fighting it occupied the port city.

Russia suspends Azov Sea agreement with Ukraine

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 2, 2023 – Russian Parliament has adopted a law on the denunciation of the 2003 Treaty between Russia and Ukraine on...

Occupied port of Berdyansk to export 1.8 million tonnes of grain in 2024

Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 19, 2023 – The capacity of the Russia-occupied by Ukrainian Azov Sea port of Berdyansk for grain shipment is expected...

Occupied ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk are operational

Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 11, 2023 – Several berths and 41 loading cranes have been prepared for work in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian Azov...

Sanctions hit Russia tries to utilize occupied Azov Sea ports in Ukraine

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) October 8, 2022 – Sanctions hit Russia is trying to to utilize occupied Azov Sea ports in Ukraine and has announced...

Russia exporting grain from occupied Ukrainian ports

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) August 24, 2022 – Russia is also exporting grain under recent agreement to open Ukrainian ports to grain exports. Whilst the...

Russia exports grain from occupied Berdyansk port

Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) July 1, 2022 – The first vessel carrying grain has left from the Berdyansk port in the Russian-occupied part of the...

Port of Berdyansk ready to export grain – local official

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 14, 2022 – The Port of Berdyansk will be ready to resume grain shipments and wheat deliveries to Turkey are possible....

Occupied Ukrainian port of Berdyansk to be reopened by Russia in June

Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 30, 2022 – Preparations are under way for the reopening in June of Ukraine’s second largest port on the Azov Sea,...

Ukraine’s ports infrastructure damage estimated at billions of euros

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 9, 2022 – Ukraine estimates the losses inflicted on its port infrastructure by Russian shelling, bombardment and...

Ukraine announces the official closure of four seaports

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 3, 2022 – The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has announced the official closure of four seaports due to...

Ukraine loses €155 million per day due to blocked ports

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 25, 2022 – Ukraine loses €155 million per day due to blocked ports, according to Ukrainian media. All the...

Update: Ukrainian ports, no new mines spotted in the Black Sea

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 10, 2022 – The Ukrainian Black Sea port of Kherson is still controlled by Russian occupying army, while in the last two...

Russia continues attacks against Ukrainian ports; no naval mines spotted in the Black Sea

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 4, 2022 – Russian missiles strikes again hit Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Odessa and Mykolaiv/Nikolaev (on the large...

No mines in the Black Sea; Odessa shelled by Russian Navy; Mariupol doesn’t surrender despite weeks of bombardment

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 22, 2022 – A claim by Russia’s Federal Security Service – FSB (formerly KGB) that mines placed by Ukraine’s Navy at...

Ukraine’s Azov Sea coast is under Russian control but Mariupol still resists massive attacks

Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 19, 2022 – Russian forces have established full control over the entire Ukrainian Azov Sea coast, 23 days after...

Only two small Ukrainian ports operational – both on the Danube River and close to the Black Sea

Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 13, 2022 – Izmail and Reni are the only two ports that continue operations in war torn Ukraine that was invaded by Russia...

The Azov Sea is slowly becoming a Russian lake, but Ukraine’s Mariupol still resists massive attacks

Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 1, 2022 – Six days after the start of Russian invasion in Ukraine, the Azov Sea moved a step closer to become a Russian...

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