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In June Boryspil handled 48,398 passengers, down 97% y/y from the June 2019 volume -- 1,532,580. Scheduled air service only re-started on June 15.
Construction of Ukraine’s largest air cargo terminal should start this fall
at Boryspil, reports the European Business Association, citing an EBA logicistics meeting with airport executives and Oleh Yushchenko, deputy minister of Infrastructure. Two weeks ago, the Kyiv Regional Administration allocated to the airport five square kilometers of land belonging to Hora, the last village on Boryspil Highway before the airport turnoff. Design work is underway, money has been allocated, and the terminal should open in time for the Christmas 2021 package shipping season, the EBA predicts.
● Ships
At the seaports, port operators increased tonnage by 10%, to 79mn tons. Exports were up 9%, import were up 13%, and transit was up 13%.
Mariupol, Ukraine’s main port on the Azov, appears to be reviving. ​In June, this Donetsk region port handled 528,100 tons of cargo – up 60% y/y. And June’s volume was up one quarter over May. Metals accounted for 78% of the June tonnage. For the last year, Russian Coast Guard vessels have tightened and eased their harassment of Ukraine-bound ships entering the Azov, a binational sea.
Cargo handled by Pivdennii, Ukraine’s busiest port, increased 61% during the first half of this year​, to 10.6mn tons, compared to January-June last year. Figures released Saturday, during President Zelenskiy’s visit to the Odesa region port, show these y/y increases: exports up 62%, to 7.8mn tons; imports up 56%, to 1.5mn tons; transit up 36%, to 1.8mn tons. On some days, rail car handling topped 1,000 a day.
Cargo moving on the Dnipro river dropped in the first half of this year by 20%​ y/y, to 3.5mn tons. By contrast, last year Dnipro river traffic was up 19%, hitting 11.8mn for the shipping season.
● Cars
On Ukraine’s northern border, Ukraine has opened six border checkpoints with Belarus​. Two of these are open for cars as well as pedestrians and cars – Dolsk, Volyn Oblast and Polessy, Kyiv Oblast. To the east, Ukraine opened four pedestrian border crossings with Russia yesterday, reports Ukraine’s Border Service. Ukraine, Russia and Belarus also opened their unique 3-country crossing – at Senkovka, northern Chernihiv Oblast.
Next year, the government plans to repair or rebuild 7,000 km of roads ​– two thirds more than this year, reports Alexander Kubrakov, head of Ukravtodor, the state highway agency. For comparison, the drive from Sumy, on the Russian border, to Uzhgorod, on the Slovak border, is 1,150 km. With three months to go in this year’s road paving season, contractors have completed work on 26% of the 4,200 km target. In addition, Ukravtodor is repairing or rebuilding 100 bridges this year, part of a 5-year, $1bn program.
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