On April 3, for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale war, a container ship called at one of the ports of Greater Odesa. On the same day, the Panamanian-flagged T Mare vessel left the port via the Ukrainian Navy’s temporary corridor in the opposite direction to Constanta.
Approximately 40 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were exported from Ukraine during the period started July 1, 2023 and ended March 31, 2024 (down 13% compared with the same period of the marketing year 2022-23).
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
At the end of March, Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company launched its third SLG barge. This was announced by the company’s CEO Dmytro Moskalenko on his Facebook page.
An already weak trade on the small-tonnage freight market of the Black and Mediterranean Seas has slackened further after March 25. This even applies to such market drivers as Ukrainian grain and Egyptian fertilizers.
The small-tonnage shipping market remains weak and overtonnaged in the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean. “There are quite many grain offers from Ukraine, but many of them are not firm,” a broker commented.
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
The Riga Freeport stepped up transshipment of mining and metallurgical products by 150% year-on-year to 178,800 t in the period from January 1 to February 29, 2024. In particular, handling of scrap, metals, and ferroalloys rocketed by 2.5 times to 147,500 t, while that of finished steel products surged by 2.6 times to 31,300…… Read more »
PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) has announced that it will provide a comprehensive cargo transportation service at a single tariff. Previously, the company focused on river transportation, with transshipment, delivery to the port and other components handled by the cargo owner
The Black Sea and Adriatic markets remain the most depressed in the small-tonnage segment: the already low activity has decreased slightly further this week. The fact that downtime in Bosporus reached 3-4 days in the last couple of weeks due to adverse weather had almost no impact on the vessel list in the Marmara…… Read more »