A winter period portends nothing good for ferrymen. An «era» of charterers who dictate terms to ship owners has begun at the market. Reduction of world trade volumes forces ferrymen to lay up the fleet.

The new procedures of customs registration of cargoes and admission of containers to dry ports entered since May, 1st, 2008, have affected intensity of release of containers from Illichivsk port and also leaving of some container lines in Odessa port.

The cargo customs complex, called to unload Ukrainian container ports, is opened on the Southern railway. The object is created on the capacities belonging to the Ukrainian state centre of transport service "Liski".