Port infrastructure

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said the government should speed up the transportation of fuel from European ports to Ukrainian consumers.

About 70 ships are blocked in the seaports of Ukraine, six ships under a foreign flag remained in the Mariupol seaport.This was announced by Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Yuriy Vaskov and director of the State Enterprise "Mariupol Commercial Sea Port" Igor Barsky at a briefing on Friday, reports Railway Supply magazine with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.

Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky made a working visit to the Republic of Latvia on April 22-24.

The Metinvest group of companies is transforming approaches to production and creating new logistics schemes to support the Ukrainian economy.

As a result of blocking the work of ports by the aggressor country, Ukraine reduced its export capacity by almost half, informs the railway magazine Railway Supply citing Forbes Ukraine.

The Russian Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) stops the publication of statistics on the cargo turnover of the seaports of the aggressor country.

Russian seaports may return to the use of dry cargo ships, which have been gradually abandoned since the 1980s.The reason for this is the massive withdrawal of the international container business from the country against the backdrop of sanctions imposed by civilized countries against Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The European Seaport Organization (ESPO) is calling for a unified and clear application of the recently introduced EU measures on ships under the Russian flag, which were adopted as part of the fifth set of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation.

A message about this appeared on April 20 on the website of the Turkish Coast Guard General Directorate, reports the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to Anadolu.

Containerized cargo is half as much as a year ago.It is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to @belzhd_live.

Ports of all EU countries closed access for Russian ships.Head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak wrote about this in Telegram, informs Railway Supply magazine.

Vessels under the Ukrainian flag have priority access to Romanian ports and are exempt from paying port services.This was announced by the Minister of Transport of Romania Sorin Grindeanu during a video conference with the European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean, reports Railway Supply magazine with reference to ports.