Investment potential of the new storing capacities with possibility of water transport handling is estimated at $250 million. This is what the director of Hermes-Trading Yuri Skichko believes.
According to him, total handling capacities may reach 5-7 MMT by 2019/2020. Additional storing facilities for river logistics can reach 2.8 MMT, including the new ones – about 1 MMT. Among them could be grain terminals as well as static and moveable points of transshipment. Grain can be supplied for handling either from lineal silos or from farmer fields or farmer silos.
Development of domestic waterways of Ukraine is vital, as this is effective continuation of E40 project development connecting the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea through Visla – Pripyat – Dnepr with the “New Silk Road”. This will be a perfect alternative for shipment of commodities in bulk and in containers/cisterns. In such a way it will be possible to create the route to ship commodities from China to Europe. (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)