In January-August Ukrainian seaports processed 2.96 million tons of bulk vegetable oils, up by 20.2% YoY. The export volumes totaled 2.75 million tons of veg oils (up by 19.2%), the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority informed. In particular, state stevedoring companies processed 83.46 thousand tons of vegetable oils at the berths of Ukrainian Sea…
Ukraine and Georgia have signed an agreement at the governmental level on arranging direct international railroad services through the two countries’ seaports, the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry press service reported. The agreement was signed at the International Maritime Forum in Batumi on September 13. “We signed a very important document today, which links Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan…
The management of “Ukrainian Railways” intends to discuss with colleagues from Georgia and Azerbaijan cargo tariffs through the territory of countries in the framework of the project “Silk Road”, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Vladimir Omelyan said. Ukraine launched the first experimental train from Ilyichivsk on January 15, to China, which was to run through Georgia, Azerbaijan…
The attraction of new cargo flows and opportunities of investing into port infrastructure have been discussed by representatives of large South Korean companies POSCO and POSCO Daewoo and top managers of Chornomorsk port (earlier Ilyichivsk seaport, Odessa region). The port’s press service reported that at a meeting on September 8, Port Director Serhiy Kryzhanovsky pointed…
AS Tallink Grupp says it is going to carry out rerouting of cruise ferries on 2 routes, placing Baltic Queen from Tallinn-Helsinki to Tallinn-Stockholm route and Romantika to Riga-Stockholm route. Tallinn-Helsinki cruise service will be operated by the upgraded Silja Europa. According to Margus Hunt, the Sales and Marketing Director of AS Tallink Grupp, the…
In January-August Neva-Metal CJSC (stevedoring company of Severstal) handled about 2.1 million tons of cargo, which is similar to the result of January-August 2015, the company reported. Container throughput totaled about 64,000 TEUs. CJSC Neva-Metal is a part of a transport division of Severstal Russian Steel of Severstal Group. Neva-Metal specializes in transshipment of containerized…
In January-August Port Kavkaz handled 19,232,000 tons (up by 12% YoY), Harbour Master of port Kavkaz Yevgeny Tuzinkevich said. Off-harbor transshipment complex handled 5,511,000 tons of export cargo (down by 21% YoY). Transshipment of oil products increased by 53% to 8,657,000 tons, sulfur and mineral fertilizers – by 112% to 2,193,000 tons, grain dropped by…