Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklyi has dismissed the head of the Odesa branch of the state-owned Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA), Ihor Tkachuk and the board chairman of PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping (UDP), Dmytro Chalyi.

A copy of the relevant ministerial order was published by the Economic Pravda publication, the CFTS portal reports.

Kryklyi also signed an order dismissing Tkachuk from the post of head of the Odesa port authority.

Tkachuk was appointed as the head of the Odesa port authority on May 25, 2017. Before then, he held the position of acting head of the Odesa Commercial Seaport from September 2016. He was previously the acting general director of the Ukrposhta postal company.

Chalyi was approved as the board chairman of PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping for a period of three years on March 7, 2018. Chalyi was the board chairman of UDP from November 29, 2017.