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The Russian Federation is recruiting people with military backgrounds to its “shadow fleet” who spy on EU waters, monitor captains’ actions, and may be involved in sabotage.

Due to the Russian attacks on energy and Black Sea ports, grain acceptance and shipment are delayed, which inflates costs and puts pressure on dollar offers. In Ukrainian ports, export demand prices for corn decreased by $3–4/t per week to $202–205/t (or UAH 9,550–9,700/t with delivery to Black Sea ports). This was reported by the…

A Russian tanker hit by drones began to sink near the sea terminal of the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Products Plant.

The business community emphasizes that international partners must urgently help protect the Odesa region and the port infrastructure of the Black Sea.

The EU Council announced the expansion of the sanctions lists, adding 41 vessels that are part of the so-called shadow fleet of the Russian Federation.

The USPA has ordered another vessel from the Romanian company SC Severnav SA for 4 million euros, which will be allocated from the IBRD funds.

Tanker trips from Novorossiysk are increasingly taking a coastal corridor along Georgia and Turkey, lengthening the crossing and making monitoring more difficult.

As of December 18, after a large-scale attack by the Russian Federation, the situation with the provision of electricity in the ports of Great Odesa remains difficult.

Currently, 92% of grain for export is transported to the ports of Great Odesa, and approximately 2% of grain goes to the western borders.

The Danube Commission supported Ukraine’s initiative to create a Register of Damage Caused by Russian Aggression to Shipping and Port Infrastructure on the Lower Danube.

A drone attack in the oil tanker port of Rostov-on-Don caused the Valeryi Gorchakov, a ship of the so-called shadow fleet, to catch fire.

The Ukrainian Navy said that the strike on the Project 636.3 submarine Varshavyanka in Novorossiysk was successful.

Metinvest spoke about the main problems of freight carriers, ways to solve them, and the
role of the state in this process.

The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Arsenio Dominguez, has called for the non-attack of civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

The United States is preparing another round of sanctions against Russia’s energy sector to increase pressure on Moscow.

After the attack on the Viva ship with Ukrainian sunflower oil, some shipowners have become more cautious about calling at Ukrainian ports.

Oschadbank has concluded a number of credit agreements totaling $77 million with enterprises that are part of the Kernel group of companies.

On the night of December 17, units of the Defense Forces struck the Nikolaevskaya oil depot in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation.