Analytics

The towing blitzkrieg continues in the Odesa seaport: towing companies offering unprecedented discounts to agents and ship owners. On the one hand, they are trying to attract new customers, and on the other, they are trying to keep existing ones. USM decided to show the chronology of the drop in tariffs and reflect on what really stands behind such decisions of towers.

Despite the ongoing crisis with the change of crews of the merchant fleet, Ukrainian sailors remain one of the most demanded specialists in the field of maritime shipping. USM found out which levels of salary are now offered to marine officers for work in foreign shipping companies by Odesa crewing agencies.

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?

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.

Brazil’s government warns that the country is facing its worst drought in 91 years. USM explains how this caused the price of corn to rise and whether it will affect exports from Ukraine.

Barva Invest, together with USM, prepared an analytical review of the situation on the grain market: what yields are predicted for Ukrainian farmers, whether the April cold snap will affect the gross harvest, and whether exporters will be able to meet the demand for Ukrainian grain in the world.

On Friday, May 14th, the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladislav Krykliy submitted his resignation. USM has prepared a chronology of the minister’s activities and achievements, in particular in the field of water transport.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy and the Qatar oil and gas company Qatar Petroleum signed a Memorandum of Understanding on energy cooperation in April.

Back in 2019, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine (MIU) has presented a kind of development plan and tasks under the promising title “To Do List”. It captured the main plans for 2020 and the next 5 years, however, not all points and goals were achieved, and the main problems in implementation were the eternal bureaucracy and lack of state budget funds.

Livestock vessels are a fairly quick way to transport live cargo by sea, but not always everything goes according to plan. Animals need to be provided not only with a place, but also with food, water, air, and most importantly, it is necessary to monitor the health of livestock. Not all vessels cope with this task, which leads to many problems – animals die, get sick, and sometimes a whole herd is infected, which in the end is simply sent to slaughter.