The Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community actively supports the authorities of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine on their path to integration into the EU. Since early April, the Secretariat has been assisting its observer participants in their preparations for the bilateral screening process, a key milestone in their accession to the EU.
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian Sea Corridor, the ports of "Greater Odessa" have processed 120 million tons of cargo, of which 76 million tons are agricultural products.
In 2025 alone, more than 28 million tons were transported, including more than 15 million tons of grain.
This year marks a key event: 25 years since the late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annanlaunched the United Nations Global Compact, which works with business leaders to build a more inclusive, sustainable and ethical global economy.
The forty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)* was held in New York from 17 to 21 March 2025.
At its fifty-fifth session in 2022, the Commission instructed Working Group VI to consider the topic of negotiable multimodal transport documents.
In the shipping sector, merchant fleet owners and operators are struggling to find skilled workers as older workers retire and younger, more promising workers choose shore-based jobs that offer better compensation and are perceived as safer. New regulations and strict training standards have made it even more difficult to quickly train new workers and fill vacancies.
