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Since November 7, 2017, the Mariupol Sea Port has temporarily reduced the draft of vessels to 7.5 meters to ensure the safety of navigation. According to the press service of the State Enterprise "Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration" (USPA), the corresponding order was issued by the Harbor Master and agreed by the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Security.

In accordance with the passport, the design depth in the seaport of Mariupol and in the approach channel of the Coal Harbor is 9.75 meters and 9.15 meters, respectively. The USPA informed that the survey work carried out in September-October of the current year showed that the approach channel of the Coal Harbor of the port of Mariupol and the approach channel of the shipping department of PJSC Azovstal underwent significant shallowing. The average annual silting (according to the passport) in the approach channel of the Coal Harbor of the Mariupol port is 820.730 thousand cubic meters and in the water area - 85 thousand cubic meters.

“In order to maintain the depths in the port, the Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine during 2015-2016, in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine, conducted an open tender procedure for the purchase of operational dredging services. LLC "Tekhmorgidrostroy Nikolaev" was determined as the winner of the auction, with which a corresponding contract was concluded. According to the terms of the contract, the contractor has undertaken to carry out operational dredging in the Mariupol seaport in the amount of 2.273 million cubic meters during 2016-2018. But at present, work under the contract is not being carried out due to a number of court cases related to the procedure for purchasing services in 2016 and the quality of the work performed,” said the acting director. Chairman of USPA Raivis Veckagans.

In 2016, the winning company provided dredging services in the amount of 1.22 million cubic meters, and in 2017, when the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine filed a case No. for dredging from 2016 is invalid, the performance of work under this contract was suspended. As of today, the decision on this case has not been made, but the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has already been on Tekhmorgidrostroy Nikolaev LLC in the amount of more than UAH 76 million for distorting the results of trading due to anti-competitive actions in previous periods.

“In order to be able to maintain the required depths in the Mariupol port, the USPA is considering the option of relocating its own dredging fleet, the Meotida dredger, to the Azov region,” Veckagans said. In addition, in order to promptly solve the problem of a temporary decrease in the draft of vessels in the Mariupol port, by the end of November 2017, the USPA plans to hold a tender for the purchase of services for the operational dredging of the water area and the port's approach channel in the amount that will provide the necessary draft of vessels and sustainable economic development seaports of Ukraine located in the Azov region.

The problem has become so obvious that it is already visible on the Internet maps of the movement of ships, - notes vovamerzavets in the LJ community en_polit : " I don’t know what they did, either they blocked the bridge, or the owners of the ships bypass Ukraine. But no one swims in Mariupol anymore.Everything is dull in the port of Mariupol."

The problem escalated greatly after the conflict in the Kerch Strait on November 25.

" Mariupol's commercial sea port is suffering enormous losses due to the actions of the Russian Federation to block ships in the Kerch-Yenikal Canal, the Mariupol portal mrpl.city reports. -ABOUT b this reported in the press service of the GP " Mariupol Sea Trade Port":

"Mariupol port is going through another difficult period. Long delays of ships in the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal, related to the activities of the border service of the FSB of Russia, led to the fact that the company was unable to fulfill the plan for cargo transshipment, and for eight days, from November 24 to December 1, it was generally idle "without a fleet. As a result, only 356,000 tons of cargo were processed out of 450,000 tons planned for November. As a result, the port ended this month with a negative financial result," the report said.

The company also clarified that the first decade of December does not give grounds for optimism. From December 1 to December 13, 185 thousand tons out of the planned 233 were handled. Moreover, these are the cargoes that the port workers did not wait for in November. According to the most optimistic forecasts, cargo handling in December will not exceed 375,000 tons.

The situation with the blocking of ships in the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal has already led to the fact that, due to long downtime, the partners of the Mariupol Commercial Port redirect part of the cargo flows to the Black Sea ports. This, according to analysts, may have negative consequences for commercial shipping in the Sea of ​​Azov in general.

Now the company is developing measures to minimize losses. First of all, a strict economy regime is being introduced, which provides for a reduction in energy consumption and optimization of repair work. Port workers are also working on alternative types of capacity utilization and hope that the current difficult situation will be resolved.

Recall Consul General of Germany visited Mariupol to study the consequences of the Azov crisis.

The American newspaper The New York Times also draws attention to the situation that has arisen in the port of Mariupol. “The greatest concern for the future of the city and all of Ukraine as a whole is caused not by the muffled noise of episodic shootings on the outskirts of Mariupol, but by that frightening silence that enveloped the large port,” the publication reports inosmi.ru translation. “This is not a joke. The situation is very serious," said Volodymyr Omelyan, Ukraine's infrastructure minister, during a recent visit to this deserted port on the Sea of ​​Azov, where there are no more capital ships except for one military vessel that is about 50 years old.

Shipping resumed ahead of a briefing by Russian border guards in Moscow on 8 December during which they denied the blockade. The easing of what Kyiv officials called a periodic naval blockade allowed four cargo ships to enter the Sea of ​​Azov and reach the port of Mariupol, where there is enough space for 18 ships.

One of the four ships was a Lebanese ship that waited 12 days before Russia allowed it to pass from the Black Sea to the Sea of ​​Azov through the Kerch Strait under a new Russian bridge leading to Crimea... More than 100 ships are expected from Russia, according to Ukrainian border guards permission to pass through the Kerch Strait - a strait that no one had ever heard of before, but which, recently, may well compete with the Strait of Hormuz in terms of the amount of attention paid to it by the world community.

Meanwhile, a report by Andriy Klymenko, head of an independent analytical group in Kyiv that monitors ship traffic, says Ukrainian border guards have exaggerated the number of ships awaiting clearance. According to him, the problem now is not that Russia is preventing the passage of ships, but that ship owners have stopped sending their ships to Mariupol. He believes that in the near future the port of Mariupol will be empty "because of the fears of ship owners"...

Restrictions on the movement of ships increase insurance costs and force exporters in the southeast of Ukraine - among them two large steel mills - to build alternative routes, primarily rail. After the overthrow of the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych, the number of approaches to the piers in the port of Mariupol decreased from 1417 in 2014 to 532 in 2017. But this slow decline turned into a real free fall...

The head of the Mariupol City Council, Stepan Makhsma, a member of the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc, is trying to play down the current crisis and calls Russia "our neighbor" and not the enemy, as Poroshenko and his ministers usually refer to it. Instead of blaming Moscow for the rise in tensions, Makhsma said Ukraine "should do its best to put relations in order."

The head of the Mariupol branch of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration (AMPU), Igor Barsky, meanwhile, in an interview with LIGA.net, said that the reasons for the degradation of the port of Mariupol began to really intensify due to the fact that shipowners raised the cost of freight to $7 per ton: "For example, freight from Mariupol to Italian ports cost $21, now it's $28. And the cost of freight from the ports of the Black Sea is 15 dollars. Freight from Mariupol is more expensive due to the need to pass channels and straits, and delays increase its cost even more. We have been working for two years in a four-day working week.” But at the same time, “truck carriers refuse to go to Mariupol because there are no normal roads. The railroad is busy."

The port of Mariupol, the largest port of the Sea of ​​Azov, is located on the northern coast of the Taganrog Bay, 14 miles from its entrance. Port coordinates: latitude 47? 03 "N; longitude 37? 30" E.
The port water area includes internal and external roads, as well as approach channels of the Coal Harbor and the port of Azovstal.
The inner roadstead, consisting of an outport, Coal, Khlebnaya and Western harbors, is protected from waves by the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western breakwaters and the Protective dam.
There are three anchoring areas for vessels on the outer roadstead.
The width of the coastal shoal in the area of ​​the port of Mariupol reaches 4.3 miles. Entry into the port is possible only through channels, the main of which is the approach channel of Coal Harbor, leading through the coastal shallows to the southern part of the Western Harbor. The canal is 9.4 miles long and 100m wide.
The port accepts ships with a draft of no more than 8.0m and a length of up to 240m. The possibility of entering the port for ships with a length of more than 240 m, as well as loading ships with a large draft (but not more than 8.2 m) is agreed with the Harbor Master.
The outer roadstead is open to winds from NE through S to SW. Under the influence of negative and surge winds, the water level in the port is subject to significant fluctuations, which are observed, as a rule, in autumn. Water surge occurs with east and northeast winds, and surge occurs with west and southwest winds.
Information about the actual water level in the port can be obtained from the State Port Supervision Inspectorate (SPSI).
The port is open for ships all year round, but in winter, as a rule, icebreaking assistance is required. The date of opening and closing of winter navigation in the port water area is announced by the order of the head of the port. The procedure for conducting an ice campaign is determined by the Compulsory Regulations for the port and the relevant instructions of the ice operations headquarters headed by the Harbor Master. The decision on the admission of ships to navigation in ice in each specific case is made by the headquarters, taking into account the technical characteristics of the vessel and the actual ice situation.
Pilotage to the port, from the port is mandatory for all vessels, except for Ukrainian vessels (small fishing vessels, dredging scows, boats and port fleet vessels), the captains of which have the permission of the harbor master for the right to navigate without a pilot, as well as ships and vessels of the Navy and border troops of Ukraine. The re-mooring of vessels in the port is also carried out only under the guidance of a pilot.
Pilotage in the port of Mariupol and in the Sea of ​​Azov is carried out by state pilots, who are part of the State Enterprise (SE) "Delta-pilot".
In order to ensure the safety of navigation in port waters, the movement of all vessels, regardless of their size, purpose and ownership, is regulated by the vessel traffic control post (VRS) "Mariupol" (Azov-Crimean regional department of the traffic control service (SRDS) SE "Delta-pilot".
Swimming on the approach channels is carried out around the clock. The movement is two-way. Vessel speed on canals should not exceed 8 knots.
When the wind speed is over 14 m/s, and also when the visibility is less than 2 miles, the RDCP announces one-way traffic on the channels. One-way traffic is also announced in other cases when circumstances so require, in particular, when sailing in ice, towing uncontrolled objects, passing tankers, vessels over 150 m long, in case of malfunction of AtoN.
In case of limited visibility and during the ice period, navigation of vessels in the RDCP coverage area is carried out with the help of RDCP technical means.
With the announcement of the beginning of the ice campaign, the headquarters of ice operations is created in the port under the leadership of the Harbor Master. Vessel navigation on the approach channels and the port water area during the ice campaign is carried out with the permission of the Ice Operations Headquarters.

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Access to the sea is important for any country, because the waterway is a great trade, economic and political opportunity. Mariupol Commercial Sea Port in Mariupol is a significant state object of Ukraine. Its history and development are of public interest. We will talk about how the port was created and what are its features today.

Geographical position

The city and port of Mariupol are located on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov, in the northwestern part of the port is located 14 km from the entrance to the bay, administratively it belongs to the Donetsk region of Ukraine and is one of the four largest sea harbors of the state. The coast of Mariupol rises 68 meters above sea level, the relief of the territory is predominantly flat. The total area of ​​the city is 166 sq. km, and 0.67 sq. km occupies the Mariupol port.

Climate

Mariupol and the port are located in the temperate continental climate zone. The local weather is greatly softened by the proximity of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov. Winters are warm, wet and short, while summers are long, hot and dry. In the warm season, clear, sunny days predominate, the sun shines for 2340 hours a year. Precipitation in the region is not very much (420 mm), this is due to the fact that there is little rain here in summer. This climate provides an opportunity to grow various heat-loving vegetables and fruits. But the city and suburbs are poorly provided with water resources. The volumes are not enough to cover the existing needs for fresh water, so several artificial reservoirs have been created in the area of ​​the settlement. The average annual temperature in Mariupol is plus 13.5 degrees. In winter, the thermometer drops to minus 1-2 degrees. Ingoda there are frosts up to 10-15 degrees. In summer, the average temperature is around 23 degrees Celsius, but the thermometer can rise up to +35. The sea in the Mariupol region in summer warms up to 24-26 degrees Celsius on average. In winter, especially in January-February, the waters cool down greatly, sometimes an ice crust forms on the surface.

City `s history

The territory where the seaport of Mariupol is located today has long been inhabited by people. The convenient location near the river and the sea made this place profitable for life. Many ancient tribes lived here, since the 10th century the lands were under the control of Kievan Rus. In 1223, the well-known Battle of Kalka took place here between the Russians and the Polovtsy and the Mongol-Tatar army. As a result, the Russians were defeated, and the lands fell under the rule of the Tatars for a long time, here the Aboriginal inhabitants were subsequently formed, the peasants who fled from the invaders became the founders of the Cossacks. In the 16-18 centuries, they settled here who built fortifications to protect against the attacks of the Crimean Tatars. However, the city of Mariupol itself dates back to the second half of the 18th century (1778), when the Church of St. Nicholas was built in the fortress and a settlement was founded nearby, which at first bore the name Pavlovsk.

In 1779, by order of Empress Catherine II, the city of Mariupol was created here, where it was ordered to resettle the Orthodox Greeks, who were taken from the territory of the Crimean Khanate. Settlers were granted special rights to land and benefits. In 1780, the city officially received the name Mariupol. The Greeks began active construction. And the city began to grow rapidly. When Crimea became part of the Russian Empire, some of the former settlers returned to their homeland, and their lands were distributed to newly arrived residents. So the German diaspora was created, many free Cossacks arrived, baptized Jews were resettled. The city became more and more multiethnic. Each nation found its own business niche, and this contributed to the rapid economic development of the region. A powerful impetus for the growth of the city was given by the construction of the port. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, a railway, the largest metallurgical plant were built in Mariupol, the port was expanding. In Soviet times, the city continues to grow, although it did not manage to avoid tragic losses during the war years. After the collapse of the USSR, Mariupol became one of the most important port cities in Ukraine and today continues its labor activity for the benefit of the country and residents.

Port history

In 1886, the construction of the port of Mariupol began, which was a natural continuation of the policy of the Russian government to develop the south of the country and create new opportunities for trade. For three years, workers deepened the harbor for the passage of heavy ships, built an embankment, piers, breakwaters. In 1889, the grand opening of the port took place. And regular transportation of coal from Donetsk mines began. Then foreign ships began to arrive at the port to conduct trade. Over the following years, it was modernized and expanded, turning into a large modern harbor.

Characteristics of the port of Mariupol

In the competitive struggle between ports, those that can serve ships of any type win - and such is Mariupol. The port is able to receive vessels of almost any carrying capacity all year round, and this is its undoubted advantage over many harbors of the Sea of ​​Azov. Mariupol is equipped with special systems that provide ice assistance to ships using an icebreaker. This allows ships to be serviced all year round. The port has all types of communication with crews, including satellite. Its conditions are such that ships with a draft of up to 8 meters and a maximum length of 240 meters can enter it. Almost 12,000 sq. m of covered warehouses and 240 thousand sq. m of open spaces. Mariupol is connected to more than 150 ports on all continents.

Port Specialization

The port of Mariupol is able to receive ships with a carrying capacity of up to 10 thousand tons, container ships, dry cargo ships for transporting coal. It mainly interacts with the harbors of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the Volga-Don system, East Africa and the Persian Gulf. The port of Mariupol specializes in receiving grain, general cargo, ore, coke, coal, construction cargo, rolled metal products, pipes, food containers, oil products, heavy and oversized equipment.

Current state of the port

Today, the port of Mariupol is one of the largest sea gates in Ukraine. More than 17 million tons of various cargoes pass through it every year, and this figure is increasing every year. The port is the most important enterprise of the city of Mariupol and gives the country a constant decent inflow of currency. Part of the profit is constantly directed to the modernization and improvement of the enterprise. The port is provided with the most modern equipment. This allows him to take ships in all weather conditions. The sea report of the port of Mariupol can be continuously tracked online, the pilotage service provides reliable escort of ships, and unloading and logistics services allow you to quickly and reliably deliver cargo to the required address or storage warehouses.

Port Museum

During the long years of the existence of the port, a lot of documents and interesting artifacts have accumulated. To systematize and store this valuable information, the Museum of the Mariupol Commercial Sea Port (Mariupol) was created. In 2012, he moved into a new, modern building. In two halls of the museum, visitors can get acquainted with the history of the creation and development of the port. Also here you can see photos of the harbor staff, a layout of its territory, maps of the routes of ships received.