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The Port of Odessa is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea. Along with its younger satellite ports of Chornomorsk and Yuzhny, Odessa is a major freight and passenger transportation hub in Ukraine. Since the end of February 2022, the port has been closed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

MSC cancels its first scheduled trip to Odessa since war started

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – Switzerland-based container operator MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. cancelled the first scheduled...

Odessa ports handle more grain, Constanta less

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) June 21, 2024 – In January-May 2024, the Port of Constanta handled 3.5 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain. This is down...

Odesa ports exported 50 mln tonnes of cargo in 9 months

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 3, 2024 – The Black Sea corridor, created by Ukraine’s Navy on August 2023, has ensured the export of 50 million tonnes...

45 mln tonnes of cargo via the Ukrainian Black Sea Corridor

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 12, 2024 – Since August 2023, during the nine months of operation of the “Ukrainian Black Sea Corridor”,...

Qortia resumes grain shipments from Ukraine’s Pivdennyi port

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 2, 2024 – Qortia AG (Switzerland), a trading and logistics company, has resumed grain shipments from Ukraine’s...

Russian ballistic missiles again hit Ukraine’s Pivdennyi port

Pivdennyi, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 21, 2024 – Two ballistic missiles hit the territory of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Pivdennyi (Yuzhny, Yuzhnyi)...

Neo-Eco to produce dredging plan for Odessa ports

Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 5, 2024 – France’s Neo-Eco, on behalf of the Odesa Regional State Administration, is launching a project to...

Ukraine to resume Black Sea container shipments by end-March

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – Ukraine wants to resume container shipments along the Ukrainian Black Sea corridor by the end of March, the...

Ukrainian-Korean workshop Port Expert Special Workshop 2024, Seoul

Seoul, Korea (Ports Europe) March 12, 2024 – The joint Ukrainian-Korean workshop Port Expert Special Workshop 2024 is taking place in Seoul. It has been...

1,000 cargo ships left loaded Odessa ports since August 2023

Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 10, 2024 – More than 1,000 cargo ships have left loaded Ukrainian Black Sea ports following the termination of the...

Japan sends equipment to repair port of Odesa

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – Amid almost daily Russian drone and missile attacks, Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa has received a new...

Ukraine’s Kernel reports reduced net profit for 2024 financial year

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – Kernel, a Ukrainian agricultural company, has reported $133 million in net profit in the second quarter of...

Seventh attempt to sell Ukraine’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi port

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – A seventh attempt will be made for the sale of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of...

Greater Odesa ports busy with exports

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – More than three dozen ships are loading on March 4 in the ports of Greater Odesa. Most of them are getting...

Record cargo turnover of Odesa ports in February

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – The cargo turnover of the ports of Greater Odesa in February was 8 million tonnes, of which 5.2 tonnes were...

Reference – Full list of ports in Ukraine’s Odesa region

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 3, 2024 – Below is a full list of terminals ports in Ukraine’s Black Sea Odesa (Odessa) region with a link to further...

New Ukrainian sea corridor exports around 13 million tonnes of cargo

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The new Ukrainian sea corridor created by the Ukrainian Navy has exported around 13 million tonnes of...

Ukrainian ports defy war and difficulties in 2023

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 28, 2023 – The total cargo turnover of all Ukrainian ports in 2023 is expected to be 57 million tonnes. This is...

No weekend for Ukraine’s Black Sea humanitarian grain corridor

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 2, 2023 – Since the launch of the temporary maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea on August 8, almost 200...

115 ships have used Ukrainian humanitarian corridor since August

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 17, 2023 – Since the launch of the temporary maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea on August 8, 115...

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