Some port impacts of the Ukraine crisis
NewsThe harbours of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia, are likely to lose two thirds of their throughput to Ukraine’s continental seapo...
Consternation and confusion reign in the Ukraine?
NewsMuch of the existing and planned inward investment in the Ukraine’s main sea ports is coming from Russian sources....
New port for the Crimea?
NewsUkraine’s KyivHydroInvest has signed an agreement with Beijing Interoceanic Canal Investment Management regarding construction of a deep w...
Ukraine ports shed container traffic
NewsContainer traffic handled by Ukrainian harbours fell by 6% in 1H/2012 to 330,000 TEU, according to official data released by the country’s...
Ukraine to sell Danube ports?
NewsThe Chairman of Odessa Regional Council, Mykola Pundyk, is calling on the government in Kiev to sell the troubled Danube River ports of Reni...
Russia digging for Black gold
NewsMoscow wants to see a new “mega-port” built on the Taman peninsula, near the Strait of Kerch....
Ukrtranscontainer restarts in Illichivsk
NewsUTC, the affiliate of Russia's National Container Company, has resumed operations at the Port of Illichivsk...
Kiev vetoes ports privatisation plan
NewsViktor Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine, has vetoed the Bill on the privatisation of the country's seaports passed by the national Parli...
Setback for Ukraine reformers
NewsA s reported at the time on worldcargonews.com, in early December Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich vetoed the Seaports Bill endorsed ...
TIS Yuzhny handles reefer containers
NewsLast week a Maersk vessel called at the TIS container in Yuzhny and for the first time ever in the port reefer containers were handled...
Odessa Court rules in favour of UTC in Ilyichevsk
NewsThe Odessa Regional Court of Appeal has decided in favour of Russia's National Container Company (NCC) and instructed the Ilyichevsk port au...
Kiev tries to mediate Ilyichevsk conflict
NewsUkraine’s new transport minister Kostiantyn Yefymenko has set up a working group to resolve the long-running conflict between the state-ru...
Ukrainian ports in a legal straitjacket*
NewsThe Ukrainian port sector and, in particular, the Ukrainian public port authorities such as the Odessa and Ilyichevsk commercial sea ports, ...
Russian Railways eyes stevedoring businesses
NewsRussian Railways (RZD)’s wholly-owned subsidiary Freight One (FO), which accounts for 21% of Russia’s total rolling stock, is mulling va...
NCC to take its Ilyichevsk case to International Court of Aribtration
NewsFollowing the verdict of the Supreme Court of Ukraine earlier this week to to terminate the joint operation agreement (JOC) of its affiliate...