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This season Ukraine is waiting for an almost record grain harvest, which will be the second largest in the entire history of Independence – after 2019. It is expected that in this regard, the volume of exports will also grow. Therefore, USM asked the question: is the desire to increase grain transshipment capacity justified, and how will this affect transshipment rates? What was the capacity of grain facilities 5 years ago and what is it now? What is the current reserve of transshipment capacity at deep-water terminals, will the plans to increase these capacities be justified in the near future?

USM spoke with Raivis Veckagans, in the past – acting Head of the State Enterprise “Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine”, and for the last year and a half – the managing partner of its own RV Transport Consulting.

Ivan Fedorko has been appointed Staff Advisor to the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov.

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has published a draft order of the Cabinet of Ministers “On approval of the Strategy for the development of inland water transport of Ukraine for the period until 2031 and approval of an action plan for its implementation.”

On June 6th, law enforcement officers detained a truck in the port of Chornomorsk with the smuggling of tobacco products – sticks for alternative smoking products.

Dry-cargo ship Harun Konan – the flag of Turkey – ran ashore on the Rvach River (right arm of the Dnipro).

The OSCE Mission visited the port of Mariupol to discuss the topic of freedom of navigation in the Black and Azov Seas.

The first cargo train from China China-Europe Express will arrive in Ukraine.

The head of the State Service of Maritime and River Transport announced the decision to leave the post.

The Ministry of Infrastructure, the Office of Simple Solutions and the Ministry of Digital Transformation have developed a plan to reform the seafarer certification field. The reform should simplify the interaction of seafarers with the state, while minimizing the human factor.

The urgent need for high-quality roads that lead to the ports of Odesa region is not a whim of carriers and shippers. This is, in fact, a prerequisite for the development of the ports themselves, their investment attractiveness. At the same time, the only road to the Odesa port is toll. There is still no normal bridge across the Sukhoi Estuary on the road to the port of Chornomorsk, the Odesa-Mykolaiv route needs to be expanded to increase its throughput. And the lack of settling sites for heavy vehicles creates a problem with trucks, which in large numbers (especially in the summer season) accumulate on the sides of the main routes.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has appointed a new Deputy Minister of Infrastructure – the former head of Odesa port and the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” Yuriy Vaskov.

Deputy Minister of Economy and Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka was elected Chairman of the International Grains Council.

Pivdenny seaport is one of the youngest ports in the country, which is the deepest in Ukraine; occupies a strategic position in the work of international transcontinental transport corridors and is the most promising for ensuring the interests of Ukraine as a transit state. In the water area of ​​the port, the Odessa Port Plant, the largest in Ukraine state-owned bulk cargo stevedore Yuzhny Port, the TIS group of companies and other stevedore complexes operate.

According to a new analysis by Alphaliner, today the ten largest sea container carriers account for 85% of the world’s freight traffic.

Director of the customs brokerage and consulting company Port Clearance Alexander Gladilin – about the possibilities of river terminals on the Dnipro.

Since June 9th, SE “Odesa Sea Commercial Port” has significantly changed the tariffs for the provision of services by tugboats of its own fleet when performing mooring operations.

Andrey Sokolov, Director of the Ukrainian Shipping Magazine news agency – about new appointments and the future of the maritime industry.