Economy

For the first time in the Reni port, urea-ammonia mixture was transshipped in bulk
Chemical tanker Med Tuncer is being handled in the Reni seaport. The vessel delivered a new type of cargo from Klaipeda: 7.15 thousand tons of urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) in bulk.

Odesa port is being prepared for privatization
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine plans to leave only the Yuzhny port under state control. The department also plans to put the Odesa Commercial Sea Ports up for privatization.

A new ro-ro handling record in the port of Chornomorsk (VIDEO)
The vessel Neptune Okeanis, which brought almost 1.5 thousand vehicles, was handled in 18.5 hours in the port of Chornomorsk.

Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company estimated cost of fleet modernization at €50 million
The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company believes that it may take €50 million to modernize the fleet.

Egypt will import 120 thousand tons of Ukrainian wheat
Egypt purchased 360 thousand tons of wheat for delivery from 1st to 10th of December. The acquired volume was distributed among suppliers from Ukraine, Romania and Russia.

Ukraine can set two wheat export records
The number of countries to which Ukrainian wheat is supplied for more than $10,000 has grown from 32 to 50 in recent years. At the same time, more than 1,000 companies export Ukrainian wheat today.

Ust-Dunaisk port may be privatized by the end of 2021
The Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) said that the port of Ust-Dunaisk is planned to be privatized by the end of 2021.

The speculative rise in prices for railway transportation will reduce the income of Ukrainian farmers in 2021/22 MY, – Advisor to the Head of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia
Grain producers faced a choice: either to overpay UAH 200-300 (USD 7.59-11.38) for the transportation of a ton of grain, or to postpone the deadlines for fulfilling contracts.

The volume of transportation of construction materials along the Dnipro increased by 70%
The share of construction materials in the volume of cargo transportation on the Dnipro River increased: in January-September it reached 69% compared to 49% a year earlier.

Ten vessels are handled at the same time in the port of Mykolaiv
As of Monday, October 25th, 10 vessels are simultaneously handled at the berths of the port of Mykolaiv.