Ukraine
Ukraine is located in Southeast Europe and borders Russia, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Belarus. It has an extensive southern coastline with the Azov and Black Seas. Its seaports include Odessa, Kherson, Berdyansk and Mariupol. On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014. Russia now controls the Azov Sea and occupies the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol. It has also blockaded all Ukrainian Black Sea ports which are currently closed to all shipping. (Updated 24.06.2022)
Occupied Mariupol port handled 350,000 tonnes of cargo in 2024
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 10, 2025 – Cargo transshipment at the Russia-occupied Ukrainian Azov Sea port of Mariupol doubled in 2024 compared...
Ukrainian drones attack Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 8, 2025 – Local sources have reported that on January 4 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Baltic Sea port of...
Ukrainian ports handled record 97.2 mln tonnes of cargo in 2024
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 7, 2025 – Despite frequent Russian missile and drone strikes, Ukrainian Black Sea ports handled a record 97.2 million...
New Ukraine-Romania Danube bridge to be approved in 2025
Orlivka, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 2, 2025 – After more than 10 years of talks about the construction of a bridge across the Danube River between...
Dramatic increase of cargo via Ukrainian ports in 2024
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 31, 2024 – Statistics from war-torn Ukraine are often confusing. This is why Ports Europe tries to report all of them...
HHLA Odessa terminal resumes waterside container handling
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 30, 2024 – Container Terminal Odessa (CTO), part of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), resumed container...
Ukraine purchases Greece-delivered gas from USA
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) December 29, 2024 – DTEK, a Ukrainian private energy company, has taken delivery of its first cargo of liquefied natural...
Mobile scanners for five Ukrainian border crossings from USAID
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 29, 2024 – Five mobile X-ray scanners to improve customs operations at border crossing points along Ukraine’s...
CMA CGM returns to Ukraine with Piraeus-Istanbul-Odessa line
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 28, 2024 – The French company CMA CGM, one of the three largest container shipping operators in the world, will...
Emergency in Krasnodar as more oil from sunken tankers washing up on coastline
Anapa, Russia (Ports Europe) December 25, 2024 – Russia’s southern Krasnodar region declared a state of emergency after oil from two over...
Oil keeps leaking from sunken Russian tankers near occupied Crimea
Kerch, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 21, 2024 – The two Russian oil tankers that crashed on December 15 in the Kerch Strait continue to spill fuel oil...
Port of Constanta sees reduced handling of Ukrainian grain, Jan-Nov 24
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) December 18, 2024 – In January-November 2024, the Port of Constanta handled 6 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain, down...
Update: Kerch Strait – a deadly trap for ships
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The disaster of December 15 with the two very old Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait that connects the...
Ukraine’s missiles attack Azov Sea port of Taganrog
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) December 12, 2024 – Ukrainian missiles have hit Russia’s Azov Sea town of Taganrog, home to the port of the same name....
Ukrainian naval drones hit gas platforms off the Crimean coast
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 7, 2024 – Ukrainian naval drones hit Black Sea gas platforms off the coast of Moscow-occupied Crimea, Kyiv’s navy...
Drones’ attack in occupied Kerch – bridge closed
Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – Following Ukraine’s early morning air and naval drone attack, there were explosions in the area of...
Odesa ports handled 90 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov’24
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – Ukraine’s Black Sea ports in the Odessa region handled 89.8 million tonnes of cargo from January to...
Governor of Odessa visits Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – The governor of Odessa Oblast in Ukraine, Oleg Kiper, has led a delegation to the port of Venice. The...
Second Ukrainian drone attack in a month against Kaspiysk port
Kaspiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) November 30, 2024 – Ukraine hit, for the second time in November, Russian navy ships on November 30 in their Caspian Sea...
Danish delegation visits Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 28, 2024 – A government/corporate delegation from Denmark has visited the Ukrainian Ministry of Development of...