Tag: seaport
In a candid interview with CFTS, Yurii Hubankov, the general director of Brooklyn-Kiev, one of the biggest private stevedoring companies in Ukraine, explains why his company is in the crosshairs of the prosecutor’s office, who is behind it, and the tools for protecting the company’s business in Ukraine
The Ukrferry shipping company (Odessa), the national operator of ferry lines, has announced the lowering of its tariffs for transportation of passenger cars (including SUVs) with drivers on the Ilyichevsk-Poti/Batumi route from 1 June.
The loading of the Fakarava ship (flag of Malta) at the Yuzhny seaport (Odessa region) finished on 15 May. The ship was loaded with more than 200,000 tons of iron ore
Bakhmatiuk also said that the holding company plans to spend about USD 100 million on completion of the elevator project and beginning of the port project this year.
The volume of cargo transshipment at Ukrainian seaports was 47.776 million tons in the period of January-April 2015.
According to Yurii Hubankov, the company experienced similar events in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Director оf Centre for transport strategies Serhiy Vovk talk about infrastructure problems in Ukraine at symposium "Ukraine: Escape from Post-Soviet Legacy". The most problematic zone of high importance for Ukrainian economy is railway, thinks expert.
The system provides an alternative exit for container trucks with containerized cargoes that are processed via the procedure for preliminary customs clearance of containers.
Ukrainian seaports handled 7.79 million tons of grain cargoes (including 7.648 million tons of grain) in January-March 2015, which is 9.5% lower than they handled in the same period in 2014.
Pavliutin claims that the terminal is proposing several ways out of the situation to the state: renegotiate the agreement on joint operations, conclude a lease agreement.
The main drivers of the increase in cargo transshipment at the Yuzhny port were mining and metallurgical goods
The order finally eliminates the corruption scheme that environmental inspectors have used for many years, which was based on illegal control of segregated ballast of ships in Ukrainian ports.
According to Vaskov, the ministry has created a new strategic development department, its formation is being finalized, and it will probably be announced together with the new strategy.
The vessel was detained because of poor seaworthiness, but he added that the vessel earlier entered ports in the occupied Crimea.
In particular, the volume of wheat shipments totaled 125,300 tons and maize shipments totaled 333,900 tons.
The American investor believes that implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union will inevitably increase Ukraine’s involvement in world trade.
The idea was to remove ports from the list of strategic facilities so that they can become subjects of public-private partnership or other forms of partnership
Minister of Infrastructure Andrii Pyvovarskyi recently blocked an attempt by ecologists to create a similar corruption scheme.
In the past few years show that state-owned stevedoring companies are losing market share while private stevedores operating at both private and public berths are, on the contrary, increasing their cargo handling volumes.