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Odessa

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.

Russia’s Black Sea fiasco – Ukrainian cargo corridor working

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 24, 2023 – Russia’s leverage over Ukraine’s exports of grain via the Black Sea is eroding as more...

Update: Three big cargo ships defying Russian blockade entered Ukrainian ports

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 22, 2023 – Three more big cargo ships defied the Russian navy blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea harbours on September...

Container ship from Odessa arrives in Cagliari

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – The Mediterranean Intermodal Terminal Operator (MITO) terminal in Cagliari has welcomed the...

Oleksandr Kubrakov: The first civilian ships used the temporary corridor in the direction of Ukrainian ports

News Release – Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine – September 16, 2023 After using the temporary corridor for the exit of ships blocked due to...

Oleksandr Kubrakov: Another ship blocked due to the war has left Odessa

News Release – Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine – September 15, 2023 The bulk carrier PUMA (Cayman Islands) left Odesa Seaport this morning...

Ships carrying products from Ukrainian metals companies have broken the sea blockade

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 6, 2023 – The local Metinvest Group has published a press release saying that for the first time since the...

Update: The second ship that broke Russian blockade enters Romanian waters

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 27, 2023 – The bulk cargo carrier Primus (it arrived in Odessa in February 2022 under the name Polarstar),...

Ship reaches Istanbul from Odessa using “humanitarian corridor”

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 18, 2023 – The first ship to use a temporary corridor to and from Ukraine’s seaports entered Turkey’s...

Russia again attacks Ukrainian Danube ports exporting grain

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – Russia attacked Ukraine’s Danube River grain port of Izmail in the early hours of August 2 with drones....

Russia and Ukraine threaten ships sailing toward the other country’s ports

Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 22, 2023 – Russia and Ukraine have both said that any ships heading to the Black Sea ports of the other country may be...

Russia attacks grain infrastructure at Ukrainian seaports

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – On Monday July 17, Russia withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal, an agreement for Ukrainian to export...

Third day of bombardment of Ukrainian ports by Russia

Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – Russian missiles and drone strikes on Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Mykolaiv and Odesa continued for a third day...

Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Mikolaiv bombarded

Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 19, 2023 – Brutally retaliating for the drone attack on the Kerch Bridge, Russia bombarded the Ukrainian Black Sea port...

Huge floating crane transferred from Odessa to Izmail

Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Forced to reorientate cargo flow from the blocked by Russia Black Sea ports to the Danube River ports, the...

The “Game of Drones” for Russian and Ukrainian ports

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Russia and Ukraine have exchanged drone attacks against their Black Sea ports in the past months, damaging...

EBRD restarts work on Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to restart work on Ukraine’s Chornomorsk...

Constanta keeps up the pace of Ukrainian grain export

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 12, 2023 – 3.33 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain were shipped through the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta...

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