Overview

Ukraine’s advantageous geographical position makes it a main hub for transit of goods and passengers between Europe, Asia and Middle East; a number of international transport corridors, reaching a total length of over 5 thousand km, pass through Ukraine.

Today the country’s transportation infrastructure includes approximately 169.5 thousand km of highways. It is expected that the amount of traffic and the quality of rendered services will increase during the next three years and large-scale infrastructure projects, including reconstruction of a number of roads, are planned to be implemented. The main direction of the industry’s development, provided by the development concept approved by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, is to raise of standards and increase integration of the transport system of Ukraine into European infrastructure.

Ukraine’s highways network is quite extensive, it covers all the territory of the country; however, the quality of the road surface and automotive infrastructure is in need of improvement. The government has invested in development of main roads, linking country’s major economic centers; however, the level of investment in the regional road network is rather low, which does not allow adequate financing for maintenance of the road network.

The international transport corridors that pass through Ukraine include:

• Pan-European Transport Corridor III, with the route Berlin – Wroclaw– Lviv – Kyiv and a length of 1640 km, from which 694 km are railways and 611 km are highways across Ukraine
• Pan-European Transport Corridor V, which links Trieste and Lviv via Ljubljana, Budapest and Uzhhorod with a total length of 1595 km, from which 266 km of highways and 338.7 km of railways pass through Ukraine.
• Pan European Transport Corridor IX, with a total length of 3400 km and a route passing through Helsinki – St. Petersburg – Vitebsk – Kyiv – Odesa – Plovdiv – Bucharest – Alexandroupolis. In Ukraine, Pan European Transport Corridor IX consists of 1496 km of railways and 996 km of highways.
• Gdansk – Odesa International Transport Corridor, with a length of 1816 km and passing through Poland and Ukraine. In Ukraine, this international transport corridor consists 918 km of railways and 1208 km of highways.

The existence of these well-defined routes provide obvious advantages for the transit or delivery of humanitarian cargoes, through well-established main border crossing points. Provided that all the procedures of the customs and importation requirements are respected, usage of these internationally established corridors can be recommended for consideration of UN when surface transport delivery is envisaged. 

For more information on government contact details, please see the following link: 4.1 Government Contact List here.

Distance Matrix

Road Corridors 

The following road corridors are officially established by the ‘Temporary Order on Control of the Movement of People, Transport Vehicles and Cargo along the Contact Line in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions’ to enter/exit NGCAs:

1)   road corridor ‘Stakhanov-Zolote-Hirske-Lysychansk’ – checkpoint ‘Lysychansk’;

2)    road corridor ‘Horlivka-Artemivsk’ – checkpoint ‘Zaitseve’;

3)    road corridor ‘Donetsk-Kurakhove’ – checkpoints ‘Kurakhove’ and ‘Heorhiivka’;

4)    road corridor  ‘Donetsk-Mariupol (across Volnovakha)’ – checkpoint ‘Buhas’

5)    road corridor ‘Novoazovsk-Krasnoarmiisk-Talakivka-Mariupol’ – checkpoint ‘Hnutove’;

For information on land border crossing see the following attachment: Land Border Crossing Matrix