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Today, September 24, 6 ships with agricultural products left the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk as part of the Istanbul Agreements, two more are waiting to be shipped.

Informall BG cargo analytical bureau studied Black Sea ro-ro & ro-pax market identifying the influence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the regional transport industry. 

Complex schemes for the supply of oil products from Russia are already being actively used, although the EU ban on the import of raw materials will only come into force in December.

The Ministry of Infrastructure has published a draft order approving the Procedure for assessing damage caused by Russia to Ukrainian ports in the Danube region.

USM investigated the main sentiments of the agricultural market of Ukraine. We tell how farmers were affected by the “grain corridor” and what problems should be solved in order not to get a shortage of grain storage capacities.

Today is one month since the beginning of “grain corridor” operation, which was launched from three Ukrainian ports as part of the Istanbul Agreements.

Kherson, Mariupol and Berdyansk are three ports occupied by Russian troops. The Russians use Ukrainian enterprises to obtain military equipment from Russia. Also, the occupiers steal grain from farmers or large agricultural enterprises and send it through captured ports to third countries.

The USM tells which auxiliary and special vessels remain in the occupation. We are considering whether the russians will be able to exploit them for their own purposes, and what problems the blockade of the technical fleet exposes the vessels to.

The war in Ukraine has created an unprecedented stress test for the global freight supply chain. Particularly acute was the issue of importing containers, which in February were already en route to Ukraine.

On Thursday, June 16, 2022, the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Biden, signed into law S. 3580, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.