Ukrainian ports: transit cargoes handling becomes more expensive
The Ukrainian Ministry of Transport and Communication abolishes tariff discounts on transit cargoes handling in the country’s leading ports, RZD-Partner reports.
The reason for it is the inefficiency of the discounts on mass transit cargoes handling while the cost price of stevedoring services grows. “Implementation of the discounts to the lump rates on handling of transit coal, the tariff on which is low, in the Berdyansky and Yuzhny commercial sea ports and Zaporozhsky river port; of containers in the port of Odessa, ore in the ports of Ilyichvsk and Yuzhny, have become economically unreasonable because the ports get no profit”, stated the Ministry.
The order on discounts abolishment concerns the following ports: Berdyansky (discount on coal was 20%); Ilyichevsk (discount on ore was 47.5%), Odessa (discount on 20-foot and 40-foot containers was 22.7% and 27.5% respectively), Yuzhny (Discount on ore and coal was 31% and 19.55% respectively); Zaporozhsky river port (discount on coal – 33%). It is planned that the cargoes will be handled without discounts in 2007.
The reason for it is the inefficiency of the discounts on mass transit cargoes handling while the cost price of stevedoring services grows. “Implementation of the discounts to the lump rates on handling of transit coal, the tariff on which is low, in the Berdyansky and Yuzhny commercial sea ports and Zaporozhsky river port; of containers in the port of Odessa, ore in the ports of Ilyichvsk and Yuzhny, have become economically unreasonable because the ports get no profit”, stated the Ministry.
The order on discounts abolishment concerns the following ports: Berdyansky (discount on coal was 20%); Ilyichevsk (discount on ore was 47.5%), Odessa (discount on 20-foot and 40-foot containers was 22.7% and 27.5% respectively), Yuzhny (Discount on ore and coal was 31% and 19.55% respectively); Zaporozhsky river port (discount on coal – 33%). It is planned that the cargoes will be handled without discounts in 2007.