Ukrainian ports still going strong

This is according to a statement by Dias Marine Consultants Co Ltd, Ukrainian correspondent of The Swedish Club, which says local authorities are doing their bit to keep the situation at bay.

“The same can be said about leading ports on the Azov Sea, Mariupol and Berdyansk, where the situation in the towns is quiet and kept under control.” However, the Port of Kherson in southern Ukraine is looking “more aggressive”, says Dias Marine.

A spokesperson for Odessa-based legal firm, Interlegal, said to Port Strategy: “Port and logistics are quite conservative. Some time has passed and we are going to see problems in the industry, for sure.”

The ports of Dneprobugskiy, Oktyabrskiy ports, Nibulon private grain terminal, as well as Nikolaev River and Nikolayev seaports, are also more stable than the Port of Kherson, but things are still uncertain.

But the grain terminals of the Port of Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, shipment operations are said to be in normal mode.

The future of the country’s ports in terms of privatisation is also unknown. Denys Rabomizo, a spokesperson from Rabomizo Law Firm, told PS: “Due to the change of state power in Ukraine, it is quite possible that adjustments will be made in the process of privatisation of Ukrainian sea ports.”