Tag: Odesa
The volume of container transshipment at the Odesa seaport increased by 15.7% to 70,800 TEU in the period of January-February this year, compared with the corresponding period of last year.
The Odesa regional administration has approved the project documentation for construction of a bridge across Sukhyi Estuary (Sukhyi Liman), with a branch to the village of Malodolynske from the Odesa-Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk) highway.
Thirty-six cruise liners intend to call at the Odesa seaport this year. A general assembly of the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports (MedCruise) is also scheduled to be held.
The Odesa international airport handled 949,000 passengers in 2015, which is 9.8% more than it handled in 2014.
The Odesa seaport increased cargo transshipment by 4.1% to 25.586 million tons in 2015, compared with the previous year.
The state-owned Yuzhny port has achieved a record speed while processing the Bulk China vessel. The Bulk China vessel with a cargo of anthracite coal from South Africa was processed at a berth at the Yuzhny port in 57 hours.
X-Press Feeders will launch a new feeder service on the Black Sea. According to information from the shipping line, Istanbul, Constanta, Odesa, and Illichivsk will be the first in the feeder service’s rotation.
Carriers’ costs have reduced seven-fold, thanks to reforms at the Odesa customs. The deputy general director of the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine, Viktor Berestenko, announced this.
According to Saakashvili, Ukraine's losses are estimated at about USD 5 billion, including USD 2.2 billion in lost profits resulting from understated tariffs.
Infrastructure Minister Andrii Pyvovarskyi has said that complete overhaul of the Odessa-Reni highway will cost UAH 3.5-4 billion.
The Odesa Customs will process only goods from the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, and Australia and reject Chinese and Turkish goods because they are "a potential source of corruption."
Bulgaria supports reconstruction of the Highway M15 (Odesa-Reni, to Bucharest), and it is ready to help Ukraine obtain European Union funds for financing development of the documentation for the project.
The project involves expansion of the capacity of the terminal and its storage capacity, the cost is estimated at USD 69 million.
Wi-Fi equipment has been installed in the sleeping and compartment cars of the Odesa-Kyiv train No. 106 “Chernomorets”.
The heads of various services and agencies have signed a joint order stating that containers passing through the Odessa customs should not be inspected unnecessarily.
Austrian Airlines during the 2016 summer season will double the number of flights from Vienna to Lviv and Odessa.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Odessa municipal enterprise Odesmiskelektrotrans have signed a loan agreement for a EUR 8 m loan for 12 years to upgrade trolleybuses.
It is necessary to build a separate railway line in order to create a normal high-speed rail link between Kiev and Odessa because there is very high freight and passenger train traffic on the existing network.
The Odessa international airport transferred UAH 2.7 million into the Odessa city budget on 15 October as the latest tranche of dividends.
The Odessa regional administration’s deputy head Yulia Marushevska will be appointed deputy head of the Odessa customs office, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has announced.