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USM publishes insights from the discussion “Expert Talks: Results, pitfalls and new horizons of container traffic”, organized by the EBA Transport Working Group and Global Ocean Link.

The head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry explained that his country cannot block Russian tankers passing through the Baltic Sea.

The Royal Navy has raised the alarm to chase a Russian attack submarine.

The new head of one of the largest grain exporters in Ukraine since July 1 has become Oleksiy Kosobokov, who was previously the company’s commercial director.

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russian “authorities” put up for auction on July 2 two companies that manage the “nationalized” seaports in Yalta and Yevpatoria.

Own grain wagons allow IMC to largely abandon leased wagons for transporting grain to ports.

Russian invaders are intensifying the use of port infrastructure in temporarily occupied Mariupol.
For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the full use of the port of Mariupol for the transportation of Russian military equipment has been recorded. This was повідомив reported by the head of the Center for the Study of the Occupation, Petro Andryuschenko.
According to the Center for the Study of the Occupation, on the night of July 2-3, the occupiers removed columns of armored vehicles from the territory of the port and the ship repair yard — in particular, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, which are heading towards the Zaporizhzhia region. At night, the city was blocked, and movement was carried out only with local registration.
According to the head of the Center, Petro Andryuschenko, Russia, faced with logistical difficulties on the southern front, is changing supply routes. The importance of the port of Berdyansk is gradually decreasing due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the port of Mariupol is being integrated into the military infrastructure. In particular, it became known about the arrival of a ship with cargo at the port of Mariupol, after which a container train set off in the direction of Volnovakha.
In general, as Andryuschenko notes, Russia supplies various sections of the front through several main logistics hubs. Some of the cargo goes through the Zaporizhia region, the rest directly from Crimea. A large volume of fuel is delivered by rail from the peninsula. Another part passes by highways through Taganrog, and then towards the Zaporizhia, Donetsk regions and further north.
Ilovaisk plays a separate role in providing the northern flank of Donbass: the restored railway hub between Donetsk and Volnovakha has become the main logistics route. The Luhansk region, on the other hand, is supplied directly from the territory of Russia.
The ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol also remain part of integrated logistics: fuel is transported through Berdyansk, although with caution – due to effective strikes by the Ukrainian defense forces on warehouses and trains. In the event of a failure of one route, the Russians quickly switch to reserve branches – for example, instead of moving through Melitopol, the cargo is redirected through Tokmak, Molochansk or Berdyansk.
According to Andryuschenko, the Russian logistics system in the occupied territories is flexible, constantly adapting to changes and modernizing, which makes it one of the key targets for Ukrainian strikes in the deep rear.
As USM wrote the day before, the invaders in Berdyansk convicted a woman for supporting the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strike on the seaport.

In Berdyansk, the invaders fined a woman for her support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on the Berdyansk seaport.

SE “Izmail Sea Trade Port” has begun searching for a contractor to equip four mobile shelters for UAH 8 million.

Under the guise of a scientific expedition, Russia is actually paving the way for large-scale commercial fishing in the waters of West Africa.

During the visit, German representatives got acquainted with the work of the Ukrainian sea corridor, which has been operating since August 2023.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine officially approved Mykola Kravchuk as the head of the Shipping Administration. This was announced by the permanent representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk. Mykola Mykolayovych Kravchuk was dismissed from the post of First Deputy Head of the State Service for Maritime and Inland…

Russia has handed over to the Indian Navy the eighth frigate of Project 11356 — INS Tamala. Until 2014, Ukrainian-made gas turbine engines were used for this project.

The offer indicates a strategic rapprochement between the two isolated regimes — amid sanctions pressure and logistical changes in the region.

On the night of July 2, the Russians attacked the Odesa region with suicide drones, as a result of which the port infrastructure was damaged.

Germany has stepped up inspections of tankers passing through its territorial waters to counter Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

An attempt to attack Ukrainian targets in the south of Odesa region using Russian surface drones was unsuccessful.

As of today, direct losses to the agricultural sector in Ukraine already amount to $11 billion, indirect losses to $72 billion.

After the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the family of the traitor to Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk moved to Russia.