Description

Ukraine

Business ID: L#20251058

Investing in port operations within the Black Sea region offers distinct, compelling strategic advantages for global trade and logistics enterprises. As a pivotal maritime artery, the Black Sea serves as the critical connector between Europe, the Southern Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean. This unique geographic positioning transforms the region into an essential corridor for international commerce, energy transit, and, most critically, global food security.

Keypoints

*With a small investment it will be possible to load two LNG carriers per week using the direct option by road transport;

Infrastructure & Storage Capacity

Key benefits

• Gateway to Global Markets: The ports in this region are indispensable in linking landlocked Eastern European and Central Asian producers with world markets, making them vital nodes in global supply chains, especially for commodities like grain and oil.

• Infrastructure Connectivity: The Black Sea coast is a strategic integration point for extended multimodal transport networks, including the Trans-European Networks (TEN-T), offering crucial connectivity that drives economic growth and trade competitiveness.

• Resilience and Growth Potential: Despite geopolitical challenges, the Ukrainian maritime sector has demonstrated extraordinary resilience, with port activity showing a strong capacity for rapid volume recovery and growth, underscoring the long-term viability and strategic importance of these assets.

This profile presents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a high-capacity, specialized terminal facility poised to capitalize on the sustained demand for agricultural, liquid, and energy exports from this strategically vital region.

This is an established, privately-operated marine asset boasting a substantial annual throughput capacity and specialized terminals for key global commodities.

Core Infrastructure and Capacity

The facility maintains a robust maritime operational profile designed for scale and efficiency:

• Vessel Handling: The primary berths are engineered to service vessels with a carrying capacity up to 15,000 DWT. Crucially, the operational flexibility allows for additional loading at the roadstead, effectively increasing the served cargo capacity to a substantial 30,000 DWT.

• Loading Equipment: Transshipment operations are supported by two high-specification “Albatros” type gantry cranes, featuring a 32-meter outreach. These cranes offer dual-mode capability:

  • Grapple mode: 10 tons lifting capacity.

  • Hook mode: 20 tons lifting capacity.

• Logistics Efficiency: The port includes its own, fully-regulated customs zone on-site, a critical feature that significantly accelerates cargo processing, reducing dwell times for international trade.

Proven Cargo Throughput

The port demonstrates consistent operational scale, with an audited total cargo turnover of 2 Million tons per year. This volume is underpinned by specialization across high-value commodity terminals.

The asset’s core value is derived from its three dedicated, high-efficiency terminals:

1. Advanced Grain Terminal

This facility is a primary gateway for Ukrainian agricultural exports, boasting a high nominal throughput capacity and extensive storage solutions.

• Handling Rate: Designed for a nominal capacity of 8,000 tons of grains per day.

• Storage Complex: Features an impressive combined storage capability of 79,000 tons, segmented into:

  • Warehouse Storage: 25,000 tons capacity.

  • Silo Storage: Two silo towers with capacities of 36,000 tons and 18,000 tons, providing secure, modern storage.

• Multimodal Access: Equipped with two dedicated overpasses and capable of executing complex loading schemes (including direct car-to-ship, car-to-barge-to-ship, and barge-to-warehouse-to-ship), supporting supply to over 20 international markets.

2. Integrated Vegetable Oils Terminal

A comprehensive liquid bulk operation with proprietary logistics assets ensuring efficient and controlled product flow.

• Storage Capacity: Offers a significant stationary oil storage volume of 21,000 tons.

• Proprietary Fleet: Enhancing supply chain control, the terminal benefits from its own tanker fleet, which includes barges providing an additional 6,000 tons of mobile storage capacity.

• Logistics Velocity: Achieves a rapid vessel loading speed of 400 tons per hour and provides the capability for simultaneous drainage from eight (8) tank trucks, maximizing receiving efficiency.

3. Own Tariff Policy & Own Customs Warehouses

The facility operates under the regulatory framework of the Law on Inland River Transport, distinguishing it from seaports subject to mandatory government tariff policies. This regulatory standing, combined with the private ownership of the berth walls, grants the port full autonomy in establishing its own pricing structures for transshipment, berthing, and lighthouse dues.

Operational efficiency is further enhanced by the presence of licensed customs warehouses, which enable the port to facilitate comprehensive export-import operations directly on-site.

4. Strategic LNG/LPG Terminal

This terminal provides critical infrastructure for the energy sector, offering rapid turnaround for gas carriers.

• Capacity: A total storage capacity of 30,000m for liquefied gas.

• Throughput: The facility is optimized to load two LNG carriers per week utilizing the efficient direct-option road transport system.

5. Development

New storage capacity at the port:

• vegetable oil – 21’000 tons;
• bioethanol, diesel fuel, gasoline – 21’000 tons;

NOTE :The port facility is currently non-operational for commercial maritime traffic due to localized security constraints in the Black Sea basin. While the asset remains under Ukrainian sovereign control and the physical infrastructure is secured, its primary deep-water access route is currently restricted by nearby military positioning.