As of September 26, 2023, 50 of the 100 vessels that were there at the time of the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, remain blocked in Ukrainian seaports. 42 of these vessels belong to foreign shipowners.
As CFTS reports, Andriy Klymenko, head of the Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Strategic Research Institute, announced this.
"29 of them are in the ports of the Mykolaiv region, 14 are in Kherson, 5 are in Mariupol. For various reasons, 2 sea vessels remain in the ports of the Odesa region out of the number of 41 that were blocked on 02/24/2022," Klymenko wrote on Facebook.
It is noted that out of the mentioned 50 ships, 15 belong to ship-owning companies from EU countries (8 of them - from Greece, 3 - Malta, 1 ship each - Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Denmark), 14 - ship owners from Turkey, 8 - ship owners from Ukraine.
"Among other shipowners are companies from Norway and China, Great Britain, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Marshall Islands, Lebanon, Egypt, Singapore," added Andriy Klymenko.
We will remind that in August-September, five vessels that had been there since the beginning of the large-scale war were able to leave the ports of the Odesa region through the temporary corridor in the Black Sea announced by Ukraine.
