AMEU: Container turnover may increase in Ukrainian ports this year
18.02.2025 - 09:43
Shipping companies are giving Ukraine positive signals regarding the prospects for increasing container cargo handling.
This was stated by the President of the Association of International Forwarders of Ukraine (AMEU) Viktor Berestenko in an interview with LIGA.net.
According to him, with the number of vessels currently plying to Ukrainian ports, their carrying capacity, as well as the current schedule, “it is possible to handle 400 thousand TEUs.”
“But we must understand that the security component continues to dominate the industry,” Viktor Berestenko emphasized.
He also recalled that on the eve of the full-scale invasion, the container turnover of Ukrainian seaports exceeded 1 million TEU. In 2022, due to the blockade of shipping, container transportation by waterways stopped.
“In 2023, container transshipment was carried out only by the ports of the Danube cluster: Izmail and Reni. Together they processed 67,667 TEU. Thanks to the resumption of shipping to the ports of Great Odesa, namely to the Black Sea Sea Fishing Port and to the Port of Odesa, container turnover in 2024 almost doubled compared to 2023 – to 129,902 TEU,” said AMEU President Viktor Berestenko.
As previously reported by USM, in July 2024, the largest international container line Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC, Switzerland) made the first call of its own container ship to Odesa.
