To make the Azov ports more attractive to shippers, Veckagans says his agency is investing $40 million over three years to dredge the two ports, to re-build a berth in Mariupol and to build a new grain terminal in Mariupol. Mariupol port authorities say that Russia’s new bridge across the Kerch Strait is so low that it blocks one-third of the ships that historically docked at the port, Ukraine’s largest on the Azov.
To make the Azov ports more attractive to shippers, Veckagans says his agency is investing $40 million over three years to dredge the two ports, to re-build a berth in Mariupol and to build a new grain terminal in Mariupol.
