USPA: Dredging Activities in Ukraine for 2016

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has just announced that the scope of dredging operations on the Ukrainan seaports performed from the beginning of 2016 exceeded 4.4 million m³.

During this period, dredging works have been completed at the inner harbor and at the access canal of the Mariupol Port’s Coal Harbor, removing 1.3 million m³ of dredged material from these areas.

Around 1.2 million m³ of material were dredged from the access canal and the inner harbor areas of Berdyansk Port.

From the beginning of this year, 290.000m³ of material have been dredged at Deep Water Fairway (DWF) Danube-Black Sea and 285.000m³ of material from the Bugsko-Dneprovskiy Lymansky Channel (BDLC) were also removed.

Maintenance dredging at the water area of Odessa Port removed 73.000m³ and during the dredging works at Dnestrovsko-Limansky Channel of the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky seaport, the contractors removed around 900.000m³ of material.

Maintenance dredging has also been completed at Yuzhny Port with the removal of 367.000m³.