At completion of 2019, Ukrainian sea ports surpassed the quantity of container transshipment of 1 million TEU for the very first time in the last ten years. Last year, container ships came to the ports Pivdennyi and also Odesa on December 30 and also 31.

According to the functional information of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, for the entire of 2019, one million and also 3 and also a fifty percent thousand TEU containers were managed in the ports (TEU is a standard device of dimension based upon the quantity of a 20-foot (6.1 meters) intermodal ISO-container). This is greater than 18% greater than in 2018.

Transshipment of container freight in Ukraine for the 2nd year straight reveals substantial development, which is a number of times greater than the typical globe numbers in the container transportation market. Now 4 exclusive container terminals are effectively running in Ukrainian ports, which intend to create their capabilities in 2020.

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The matching memoranda and also arrangements were authorized in between USPA and also the subsidiary of the German firm ННLА Container incurable Odesa, along with the third-largest container line on the planet CMA CGM along with the Ukrainian firm Brooklyn-Kiev,– stated the Head of USPA Raivis Veckagans.

According to him, this provides factor to anticipate additional advancement of container transportation, specifically as a result of the transportation of containers and also the incorporation of Ukraine in the courses of the Chinese Silk Road and also the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA), the initial freight on which started to be supplied in 2019.

Export and also import of containers in the previous year were dispersed practically similarly as a result of the benefit of imports– 48.6% and also 46.8%, specifically. The favorable characteristics of exports is given by boosting containerization of food and also light market items (handling of farming resources– flour, wheat, peas, fabrics). The development of container freight imports is generally affected by the fortifying of the hryvnia, that makes it much more appealing to provide food, equipment and also electronic devices, building and construction products and also various other products from abroad.

The transportation of container freight is still dramatically substandard in the quantity of imports and also exports and also is just 46.4 thousand TEU. However, in 2019, it revealed outstanding development prices, boosting by 42% contrasted to the previous year.

The leader in the transshipment of containers in Ukraine is the terminal of CTO SC in Odesa, adhered to by an additional terminal of the Odesa port– Brooklyn-Kiev Port, TIS-CT in the port Pivdennyi and also Ilyichivsk Sea Fishing Port in Chornomorsk.

In 2019, 15 biggest delivery firms, which represent 99.5% of the complete quantity of containers, performed ship contacts us to the sea ports ofUkraine The leading 3 are Maersk Line, CMA CGM, MSC, which offer over half of the whole container market in Ukraine (53.5%).

Ports of Ukraine are consisted of in the courses of sea solutions:

1) Bosphorus Express Service (BEX)– once a week solution of the Ocean Alliance on ship contacts us to the sea port of Odesa;
2) ZIM Med Pacific (ZMP)– once a week solution of the firm ZIM on the Far-Eastern Ports with a phone call to the sea port of Odesa;
3) ECUMED– once a week solution Maersk Line from Latin America with a phone call to the sea port of Pivdennyi;
4) Middle East (ME3)– once a week solution of Maersk Line, which linked Ukrainian ports with the nations of the Middle East.