Interview

At the end of 2020, the Panama Maritime Authority, the leader in the number of vessels registered under its flag, opened an official representative office in Ukraine, namely in Odessa. Juan Maltez, the Director of the General Directorate of Seafarers of Panama Maritime Authority, and Evgeniy Sukachev, the Head of the office of Panama Maritime Authority in Ukraine, talk about crew change issues, the benefits of the Panamanian flag and cooperation between the Panama Maritime Authority and Ukraine.

What consequences will the energy crisis bring? What is happening on the grain and oilseeds market now, and what are the future forecasts? How to predict market changes in the modern world? And how can traders build relationships with farmers? Yurii Havryliuk, Director and partner of the consulting company Barva Invest, commented specially for USM about this and many other things.

Is it difficult to digitize shipping? Is it possible to take logistics out of the influence of the human factor? About this and not only – USM spoke with Mariia Solianik, co-founder of the Amadeus Marine logistics company and the Lunar Light digital platform.

Will there be a “Maritime Day” in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine? What kind of legislative changes are expected by the industry and what should industry specialists prepare for? When will the “port-landlord” model start working, and is it worth it to be afraid of vessels flying a foreign flag on the rivers of Ukraine?

USM spoke with Maksym Lapay, Head of the Odesa branch of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, about the career, the port and plans for the 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.

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.