Russia’s harassment of merchant ships serving Ukraine’s two ports on the Sea of Azov has caused $36 million losses in the last six months and forced the main port, Mariupol, to move to a 4-day work week

Monday, October 29, 2018
Russia’s harassment of merchant ships serving Ukraine’s two ports on the Sea of Azov has caused $36 million losses in the last six months and forced the main port, Mariupol, to move to a 4-day work week

Russia’s harassment of merchant ships serving Ukraine’s two ports on the Sea of Azov has caused $36 million losses in the last six months and forced the main port, Mariupol, to move to a 4-day work week. Russian coast guard ‘checks’ of freighters cause delays averaging 30 hours, and costing $50,000 a day to shippers, according to Volodymyr Omelyan, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister.

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