Thursday, November 21
Ukraine plans to increase river cargo five-fold, to 50 million tons a year,
Thursday, April 22, 2021
aided in part by the new Inland Waterways Law, Nataliya Forsyuk, deputy infrastructure minister, told the Transportation Forum. Although Ukraine has 2,714 kilometers of navigable rivers, the country is using less than 20% of its potential. Favored during the Soviet era, river transport is back in fashion as the country seeks to comply with the EU’s Green Deal to cut greenhouse gases.
