Tag: Ukraine

ICS warned of potential supply chain disruption should the free movement of Ukrainian and Russian seafarers be affected.

On the morning of the 24th February 2022 Russian forces are understood to have commenced operations within Ukraine this is understood to have included blocking access to the Sea of Azov.

President Biden issued an Executive Order on February 21, 2022 imposing economic sanctions in response to Russia’s purported recognition of and deployment of troops in the Russian-ruled, breakaway enclaves of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) in Ukraine.

With tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalating over the past two months, the security situation in Europe has deteriorated with many supply chain operators fearing what is to come.

Ukraine criticized Russian naval exercises near its southern coast, saying the presence of warships have made navigation in the Black Sea and Azov Sea virtually impossible.

ITF-affiliated seafarers’ unions from Germany and Ukraine have announced a new project to provide free dental services to seafarers.

Ecological inspectors in Ukraine have turned their attention from ballast water to wastewater, issuing fines to vessels deemed to have caused pollution.

Following years of issues relating to the sampling and testing of ballast water and the actions by the ‘ecological inspectorate’ for ships in Ukraine, a Ukrainian Court has now ruled against the ecological inspectorate in a case related to control of ballast and allegations of pollution in the port of Yuzhnyi.

Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine announced that the Ukrainian captain of "Avant Garde", Gennady Gavrilov returned home after almost six years.

Customs officers at Ukrainian Port of Nikolayev (Mykolaiv) continue to impose significant fines on foreign-flagged vessels on the basis of inaccurate declarations of fuels, oils, stores and possessions, information by North P&I Club and local correspondents Dias & Co suggests.