{"id":18097,"date":"2022-03-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=18097"},"modified":"2022-03-31T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:53:51","slug":"the-battle-for-the-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/die-schlacht-um-die-haefen\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle for the harbours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who destroy access to the seas are strangling Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukrainian harbours have been closed since the beginning of the war, and now some important grain export plants and steelworks have also been badly hit by shelling. These include a plant belonging to agricultural giant Bunge in Mykolaiv on the Black Sea and the large Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol. Russian attacks on some of Ukraine's most important export centres are destroying the infrastructure. It will be a long time before supply chains can be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

Ukraine generates around 40 % of its gross domestic product through exports. Wheat and corn account for around USD 8bn of this and iron ore for USD 3.4bn. Ukraine is endeavouring to open new rail routes for the sale of goods such as grain, but the volume will not be sufficient. Ukrainian food companies are focussing on securing local supplies as hundreds of thousands are at risk of starvation and are without water and electricity. You can find the data for the main port cities in the report below.<\/p>\n

This is also an economic war, as Ukrainian exports consist of metals, chemicals and mechanical engineering. For grain, Ukrainian exports are even relevant for feeding the world's population.<\/p>\n

Editor-in-chief of Marineforum in an interview with WELT TV<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Editor-in-chief<\/a>
Editor-in-chief of marineforum Holger Schl\u00fcter interviewed by WELT on the strategic importance of the Black Sea Fleet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Facts and figures on the Ukrainian ports<\/strong><\/p>\n

World trade across the Black Sea<\/strong> total<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wheat: 28% via SwMeer: 9% Ukr, 20% Rus<\/p>\n

Sunflower seeds: 51% from Ukr.<\/p>\n

Sunflower oil: 44% from Ukr.<\/p>\n

Barley: 13\/13 (Ukr\/Rus)<\/p>\n

Maize: 14\/1<\/p>\n

Rapeseed 9\/3<\/p>\n

Odessa<\/strong> - over 1 million inhabitants<\/p>\n

Handling volume 2020:<\/p>\n

40 million tonnes of bulk goods (bulk)<\/p>\n

25 million tonnes of liquid bulk<\/p>\n

Grain, gas\/oil<\/b>coal,<\/p>\n

Shipbuilding<\/p>\n

Passengers (5 jetties)<\/p>\n

Container terminal (subsidiary of HHLA Hamburg)<\/p>\n

Mylolayiv<\/strong> - 480,000 inhabitants<\/p>\n

Was the most important Shipbuilding site<\/strong> the Soviet Union - 3 large shipyards<\/p>\n

Mechanical engineering and agriculture<\/p>\n

Light and food industry<\/p>\n

Port of origin of the Black Sea Fleet<\/p>\n

Mariupol<\/strong>\u00a0 - 440,000 inhabitants<\/p>\n

Steel harbour<\/strong> Azov Valley, Azovmash<\/p>\n

but also export mechanical engineering, wheat, building materials<\/p>\n

Trading down by 2\/3 since 2014<\/p>\n

Kerch Bridge 33 metres high - freighters mostly 40 metres high,<\/p>\n

Paralysing restrictions by Russia (blockade, lockdown, lengthy controls)<\/p>\n

Trading partner South\/North America lost<\/p>\n

Steel export runs by rail to Odessa<\/p>\n

1\/5 of the city's population (100,000) are internally displaced persons from the Donetsk region<\/p>\n

Berdyansk<\/strong> - 115,000 inhabitants<\/p>\n

Industrial centre Asowkabel<\/p>\n

Source: WELT, Bloomberg, Wikipedia, Schl\u00fcter<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wer den Zugang zu den Meeren zerst\u00f6rt, stranguliert die Ukraine. Seit Beginn des Krieges sind die ukrainischen H\u00e4fen geschlossen, und nun wurden auch einige wichtige Getreideexportanlagen und Stahlwerke durch Granatenbeschuss schwer getroffen. Dazu geh\u00f6ren eine Anlage des Agrargiganten Bunge in Mykolajiw am Schwarzen Meer sowie das gro\u00dfe Stahlwerk Azovstal in Mariupol. Russische Angriffe auf einige […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42],"tags":[2964,2962,2963,647,2733,2965,2960,1384],"class_list":["post-18097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-azovstal","tag-die-schlacht","tag-granatenbeschuss","tag-hafen","tag-krieg","tag-russische-angriffe","tag-schwarze-meer","tag-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}