According to the results of 2023, the volume of cargo transfer through the Chop-Zakhon border crossing increased by 55.8%. Valery Tkachov, deputy director of the commercial work department of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" said this during a meeting with representatives of Hungarian carriers on January 9.
About 3,000 trucks are waiting in queues at the border of Ukraine and Poland. The directions of three checkpoints are currently being blocked. This was announced by the spokesman of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko, Ukrinform reports.
The restrictions were announced under the pretext of military exercises.
The Russians have announced the closure of certain areas of the Black Sea, which may be used to influence the work of the Ukrainian maritime corridor.
This was reported by the head of the Monitoring Group IAndriy Klymenko of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies.
Rerouting the merchant fleet around Africa is estimated to cost up to $1 million in fuel per voyage.
Container carriers from Denmark's Maersk and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd will avoid the Red Sea route after the attack on the Maersk Hangzhou, both companies announced on January 2, 2024
This is written by TTS with reference to Reuters.
This was reported by the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Poland Czeslaw Sekerskyi, reports Ukrinform with reference to Senyrolnicze.pl.
