Despite these setbacks, the port administration plans $18.5 million in capital investment for Mariupol port, largely for dredging.

Despite these setbacks, the port administration plans $18.5 million in capital investment for Mariupol port, largely for dredging. On Monday, an international ProZorro tender closes for $32 million of dredging work on Ukraine’s two Azov ports, Donetsk region’s Mariupol and, 85 km to the west, Zaporizhia region’s Berdyansk. Last year, three tenders for this dredging failed to draw the minimum of two applicants, apparently due to company fears that Russia could impound dredging vessels in the Kerch.