Ukraine ports tender begins
NewsA conference held in Kiev in September, sponsored by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), presented feasibility studies on concessio...
Ukraine/ Qatar MoU
NewsQatar Ports Management Company (Mwani Qatar), which operates the port of Hamad in Qatar, has signed an MoU with the government-controlled Uk...
Dredging in Chornomorsk
NewsChina Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has mobilised 15 vessels and started dredging the approach channel and one of the operational areas...
Hutchison for Chornomorsk
NewsHutchison Ports has signed a MOU for development of Chornomorsk Port (formerly known as Ilyichevsk) in Ukraine...
DP World into the Ukraine
NewsDP World has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Ukraine to collaborate on matters of mutual interest, incl...
Ukraine-Moldova rail plan
NewsThe rail administrations of Ukraine and Moldova have agreed to restore a rail line between the two countries that bypasses Moldova’s break...
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...
Belarus transit problems mount
NewsDiplomatic disputes and trucking "turf wars" are making overland transit to/from Russia and Kazakhstan via Belarus more difficult...
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...