2.5 Ukraine Waterways Assessment

Ukraine has high potential navigable rivers - over 4 thousand km: there are traditional waterways Dnipro - 1,205 km and its tributaries (Desna- 520 km, Pripyat - 60 km) and Dunay - 160 km, Bug - 155 km, and other so-called small rivers. Dnipro River and its major tributaries Desna and Pripyat carried out to 90% of total transport. The remaining 10% are Dunai and other rivers (Desna, Dniester, Southern Bug, Seversky Donets, Ingulets, Vorskla, etc.). Since Ukraine gained independence in 1991, length of river waterways decreased almost twice (from 4 thousand. Km to 2.1 thousand. Km). At the same time the density of river shipping routes reduced 1.75 times; intensity of freight transport - in 4,3 times, and passenger transportation - 7.5 times

The volume of traffic fellt to 60 mln. MT in 1990 to 12 mln. MT in 2006, and then - to 5 mln. MT in 2014. Over the past two or three years, inland waterway transportation is only 0.2 - 0.8% of all the cargo traffic. The main categories of goods that are transported via inland waterway – agricultural products (mainly grain), metal products, chemicals.

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Only few companies operate on rivers. First, it is a private company "Ukrrichflot" http://ukrrichflot.ua/en/ , declares the presence of about 100 vessels of various types and their ports and other elements of the port infrastructure. The second important market player - Agrocorporation "NIBULON" http://www.nibulon.com/ . The company owns a private fleet and private river terminals.

Dnipropetrovsk River Port
Services rendered	Specialization in cargo processing	Main performance parameters
● Cargo handling complex (CHC)	● Metal products	Throughput capacity 5 700 000 tonnes
● Freight-forwarding services	● Cast iron	Length of quay 2 500 m
● Storage of cargoes	● Ferroalloys	16 berths
● Storage and processing of grain cargoes:	● Dry bulk cargo	Storage areas 69 thous.m² incl.:
─ in a silo with a volume of up to 30 thousand tonnes	● Packaged cargo	open space – 58 thous.m²/covered – 11 thous.m²
─ in covered grain storage with a capacity of 5 500 m³	● Timber	Navigation period: March – December
● Sand mining and sales	● Agricultural cargoes	Draft of vessels up to 4 m
● Fleet integrated servicing	● Mineral-building cargoes	Customs terminal situated within the port area
● Maintenance and running repairs for the vessels	● Metal scrap	3 railway stations
	● Containers	(«Nyzhnodniprovsk-Quay», «Dnipropetrovsk», «Kaidakska»)
	(stuffing/unstuffing)	Cranes
		25 dockside cranes with a lifting capacity 5-20 tonnes
		3 boom cranes with a lifting capacity 10-36 tonnes
		1 erecting crane with a lifting capacity up to 75 tonnes
		1 heavy-duty crane with a lifting capacity up to 100 tonnes
		7 lift trucks with a lifting capacity of some 1,5 to 3 tonnes
		2 rail weighing scales up to 150 tonnes
		3 truck scales up to 80 tonnes
Zaporizhzhia River Port
Services rendered	Specialization in cargo processing	Main performance parameters
● Cargo handling complex (CHC)	● Metal products	Throughput capacity 5 900 000 tonnes
● Freight-forwarding services	● Cast iron	Length of quay 2 800 m
● Storage of cargoes	● Ferroalloys	12 berths
● Storage and processing of grain cargoes	● Dry bulk cargo	Storage areas 82 thous.m² incl.:
● Sand mining and sales	● Packaged cargo	open space – 78 thous.m²/covered – 4 thous.m²
● Fleet integrated servicing	● Timber	Navigation period: March – December
● Maintenance and running repairs for the vessels	● Agricultural cargoes	Draft of vessels up to 4 m
	● Mineral-building cargoes	Customs terminal situated within the port area
	● Metal scrap	2 railway stations
	● Containers	(«Port Velyke Zaporizhzhia», «Zaporizhzhia-1»)
	(stuffing/unstuffing)	Cranes
		30 dockside cranes with a lifting capacity 5-20 tonnes
		2 boom cranes with a lifting capacity up to 36 tonnes
		2 erecting cranes with a lifting capacity 20-32 tonnes
		10 lift trucks with a lifting capacity of some 1,5 to 5 tonnes
		2 rail weighing scales up to 150 tonnes
		3 truck scales up to 60 tonnes
Kherson River Port
Services rendered	Specialization in cargo processing	Main performance parameters
● Cargo handling complex (CHC)	● Metal products	Throughput capacity 1 800 000 tonnes
● Freight-forwarding services	● Cast iron	Length of quay 814 m
● Storage of cargoes	● Dry bulk cargo	7 berths
● Fleet integrated servicing	● Timber	Storage areas 23 thous.m² incl.:
● Roadstead board-to-board transshipment	● Agricultural cargoes	open space – 20 thous.m²/covered – 3 thous.m²
	● Metal scrap	Navigation period: Year-Round
		Draft of vessels up to 7 m
		Customs terminal situated within the port area
		1 railway station
		(«Kherson-Port»)
		Cranes
		7 dockside cranes with a lifting capacity 10-20 tonnes
		1 boom crane with a lifting capacity up to 25 tonnes
		4 lift trucks with a lifting capacity of some 1,5 to 5 tonnes
		1 front side lift truck with a lifting capacity up to 6 tonnes
		1 truck scale up to 60 tonnes
Mykolaiv River Port
Services rendered	Specialization in cargo processing	Main performance parameters
● Cargo handling complex (CHC)	● Metal products	Throughput capacity 2 200 000 tonnes
● Freight-forwarding services	● Cast iron	Length of quay 750 m
● Storage of cargoes	● Ferroalloys	5 berths
● Fleet integrated servicing	● Agricultural cargoes	Storage areas 32 thous.m² incl.:
● Roadstead «board-on-board» transshipment	● Timber	open space – 32 thous.m²
● Grain handling from rail wagons and trucks via grain conveyor	● Mineral-building cargoes	Navigation period: Year-Round
		Draft of vessels up to 4,5 m
		through special spacer (barge and floating crane) up to 5,5 m
		in the roadstead up to 8,5 m
		1 railway station
		(«Mykolaiv-Vantazhnyi»)
		Cranes
		12 dockside cranes with a lifting capacity 5-20 tonnes
		3 boom cranes with a lifting capacity 10-36 tonnes
		5 lift trucks with a lifting capacity of some 1,5 to 10 tonnes
		2 front side lift trucks
		2 rail weighing scales up to 150 tonnes
		2 truck scales up to 60 tonnes
Nikopol River Port
Services rendered	Specialization in cargo processing	Main performance parameters
● Cargo handling complex (CHC)	● Ferroalloys	Throughput capacity 700 000 tonnes
● Storage of cargoes	● Metal scrap	Length of quay 300 m
● Cargo-passenger service	● Mineral-building cargoes	1 berth
		Storage areas 4,2 thous.m² incl.:
		open space – 4,2 thous.m²
		Navigation period: March – December
		Draft of vessels up to 3,7 m
		Cranes
		2 dockside cranes with a lifting capacity up to 5 tonnes
		1 truck scale up to 25 tonnes

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