Transport in Ukraine includes ground transportation (road and rail), water (sea and river), air transportation, and pipelines. The transportation sector accounts for roughly 11% of the country's gross domestic product and 7% of total employment. In total, Ukrainian paved roads stretch for . Major routes, marked with the letter 'M' for 'International' ( Ukrainian: ''Міжнародний''), extend nationwide and connect all major cities of Ukraine, and provide cross-border routes to the country's neighbours. International maritime travel is mainly provided through the Port of Odesa, from where ferries sail regularly to

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, Varna and

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. The largest ferry company presently operating these routes is Ukrferry. Rail transport in Ukraine connects all major urban areas, port facilities and industrial centres with neighbouring countries. The heaviest concentration of

railway track Railway track ( and UIC terminology) or railroad track (), also known as permanent way () or "P way" ( and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers ( railroad ties in American ...

is the

Donbas The Donbas (, ; ) or Donbass ( ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed fr ...

region of Ukraine. Although

rail freight transport Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) hauled b ...

fell in the 1990s, Ukraine is still one of the world's highest rail users. The total amount of railroad track in Ukraine extends for , of which was electrified in the 2000s. The state has a monopoly on the provision of passenger rail transport, and all trains, other than those with cooperation of other foreign companies on international routes, are operated by its company Ukrzaliznytsia. Kyiv Boryspil is Ukraine's largest international airport. It has three main passenger terminals and is the base for the country's flag carrier,

Ukraine International Airlines Ukraine International Airlines PJSC, often shortened to UIA, is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ukraine, with its head office in Kyiv and its main hub at Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport. It operated domestic and internationa ...

. Other large airports in the country include those in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

and

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

(now destroyed). In addition to its flag carrier, Ukraine has a number of airlines including Windrose Airlines, Dniproavia, Azur Air Ukraine, and AtlasGlobal Ukraine.

Antonov Airlines Antonov Airlines is a Ukraine, Ukrainian cargo airline, a division of the Antonov, Antonov aviation company. It operates international charter services in the oversized-cargo market. Its main base is Hostomel Airport near Kyiv. In the aftermath ...

, a subsidiary of the Antonov Aerospace Design Bureau, was the only operator of the world's largest fixed wing aircraft, the

An-225 The Antonov An-225 Mriya (; NATO reporting name: Cossack) was a large strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov, Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. It was originally developed during the 1980s as an enlarged ...

Economy

Transport infrastructure

Today the transport sector in

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generally meets only the basic needs of the economy and population. The level of safety, quality and efficiency of passenger and freight transport, as well as the infrastructure's amount of energy usage, and the technological burden it places on the environment do not meet modern-day requirements. Due to the low level of demand, the country's existing transit potential and advantageous geographical position is not fully utilised. There is thus a lag in the development of transport infrastructure, transport and logistics technologies and

multimodal transport Multimodal transport (also known as combined transport) is the transportation of goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different modes of transport; the carrier is liable (in a legal sense) for the entire carriage, even t ...

. All this has made Ukraine uncompetitive as the high costs of transport across the country make the cost of production in the country uncommonly high.

International transport corridors

The advantageous geographical position of Ukraine allows for the location of a number of International Transport Corridors on its territory, in particular : * Pan-European transport corridors № 3, 5, 7, 9; * Rail Co-Operation Corridors (ORC) № 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 and * European Transport Corridors – Caucasus – Asia ( TRACECA) and Europe – Asia.

Transport industry

The share of the transport sector in Ukraine's gross domestic product (according to statista) as of 2021 was 5.42%. The number of workers employed in the sector is 8% of total employment. The transportation infrastructure of Ukraine is adequately developed overall, however it is obsolete and in need of major modernization. A remarkable boost in the recent development of the country's transportation infrastructure was noticed after winning the right to host a major continental sport event the

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. In 2009, Ukrainian infrastructure provided for the transportation of 1.5 billion tons of cargo and 7.3 billion passengers. Due to the

2008 financial crisis The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis (GFC), was a major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States. The causes of the 2008 crisis included excessive speculation on housing values by both homeowners ...

, the volume of freight traffic decreased by 17.6% in 2009 when compared with figures from 2008; passenger transport fell by 12.7%.

Rail

The public railways in Ukraine are managed by the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia.

Network length (2010)

The length of the railway network Ukraine ranks third in Europe (21.700 kilometres of track). *

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...

of , ~ electrified ( 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC) * of

standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the ...

, electrified

Rail links with adjacent countries

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Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

(

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: / ) *

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(

: / ) *

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(

: / ) *

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(

: / plus a standard gauge cross-border cargo line)

Metro

In Ukraine, there are 4 metro systems: the

Kyiv Metro The Kyiv Metro (, ) is a rapid transit system in Kyiv, Ukraine, owned by the Kyiv City Council and operated by the city-owned company Kyivskyi Metropoliten''.'' It was initially opened on 6 November 1960, as a single line with five stations. I ...

, the

Kharkiv Metro The Kharkiv Metro () is the rapid transit system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kyiv Metro, Kyiv) and the sixth in the Soviet Union, USSR when it opened on 22–23 ...

, the Dnipro Metro and the Kryvyi Rih Metro.

Roads

The development of public roads in Ukraine is currently lagging behind the pace of motorisation in the country. During 1990-2010 the length of the highways network hardly increased at all. The density of highways in Ukraine is 6.6 times lower than in France (respectively 0.28 and 1.84 kilometres of roads per square kilometre area of the country). The length of express roads in Ukraine is 0.28 thousand km (in Germany – 12.5 thousand kilometres in France – 7.1 thousand kilometres), and the level of funding for each kilometre of road in Ukraine is around 5.5 – 6 times less than in those locations. This is due to a number of objective reasons, including that the burden of maintaining the transport network per capita is significantly higher than in European countries because of Ukraine's relatively low

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(76 people per square kilometre), low

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of citizens (1/5 of the

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's purchasing capacity), relatively low car ownership and the nation's large territory. The operational condition of roads is very poor; around 51.1% of roads do not meet minimum standards, and 39.2% require major rebuilds. The average speed on roads in Ukraine 2–3 times lower than in Western countries. As of 2016, many of Ukraine's major provincial highways are in very poor condition, with an Ukravtodor official stating that 97% of roads are in need of repair. The road repair budget was set at about ₴20 billion, but

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causes the budget to be poorly spent and overweight trucks are common place rapidly causing more road damage. *Total: 169,477 km * Paved: (including of expressways); note – these roads, classified as "hard-surfaced", include both hard-paved highways and some all-weather

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-surfaced roads. *Unpaved: (2004)

Principal roads

Motorways in Ukraine, (2010):

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

–

Boryspil Boryspil (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Boryspil Raion in Kyiv Oblast (region) in northern and central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Boryspil urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was estimate ...

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

–

Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

State Highways A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either Route number, numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered ...

, (2009):
M01 , M02 , M03 , M04 , M05 , M06 , M07 , M08 , M09 , M10 , M11 , M12 , M13 , M14 , M15 , M16 , M17 , M18 , M19 , M20 , M21 , M22 , M23 ''Note:'' ''State highways are important national routes and are not necessarily high-speed roads''

Bus

* Autolux Bus

Aviation

Outlook

The aviation section in Ukraine is developing very quickly, having recently established a visa-free program for EU nationals and citizens of a number of other 'Western' nations, the nation's aviation sector is handling a significantly increased number of travellers. Additionally, the granting of the

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football tournament to Poland and Ukraine as joint hosts has prompted the government to invest huge amounts of money into transport infrastructure, and in particular airports. Currently there are three major new airport terminals under construction in

and

, a new terminal has already opened in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

and Kyiv's

Boryspil International Airport The Boryspil International Airport () , also known as Kyiv Boryspil Airport, is an international airport in Boryspil, east of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger air traffic, including al ...

has recently begun operations at Terminal F, the first of its two new international terminals. Ukraine has a number of airlines, the largest of which is the nation's

flag carrier A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by that government for international operations. Histo ...

, UIA.

, a subsidiary of the Antonov Aerospace Design Bureau is the only operator of the world's largest fixed wing aircraft, the

. Donetsk Airport destroyed due to War in Donbass. New terminal at Odesa International Airport has been opened for arrival flights on April 14, 2017.

Airports

*Total: 412 (2012)

Airports with paved runways

*Total: 179 *Over 3,047 m: 13 *2,438 to 3,047 m: 49 *1,524 to 2,437 m: 22 *914 to 1,523 m: 6 *Under 914 m: 89 (2012) Major airports are: Kyiv Boryspil Airport, Dnipro International Airport, Kharkiv Airport, Lviv Airport, Donetsk Airport, Odesa Airport, and Simferopol Airport.

Airports with unpaved runways

*Total: 233 *2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 *1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 *914 to 1,523 m: 9 *Under 914 m: 216 (2012)

Heliports

*Total: 7 (2012)

Water transport

River transport

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waterways on 7 rivers, most of them are on

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Dnieper The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...

and

Pripyat Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat (river), Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth ''atomgrad'' ...

rivers. All Ukraine's rivers freeze over in winter (usually December through March), limiting navigation. However, river

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s are available on the Dnieper, at least in vicinity of

Danube

The most important waterway of Ukraine. *

Izmail Izmail (, ; ; , or ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality on the Danube river in Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Izmail Raion, one of seven distr ...

* Reni Commercial Seaport * Ust-Danube Commercial Seaport

Dnipro

Dnipro within Ukraine is a regulated system of

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s separated by

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s with shiplocks. The river is navigable through all its Ukrainian length. *

Cherkasy Cherkasy (, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy serves as the administrative centre of Cherkasy Oblast as well as Cherkasy Raion within the oblast. The city has a population of Cherkasy is the cultural, educational and industrial centre ...

* Kakhovka *

Kremenchuk Kremenchuk (; , , also spelt Kremenchug, ) is an industrial city in central Ukraine which stands on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The city serves as the administrative center of Kremenchuk Raion and Kremenchuk urban hromada within ...

* Kyiv River Terminal * Nikopol *

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

Pripyat

Notable riverport

Chernobyl Chernobyl, officially called Chornobyl, is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to the north of Kyiv and to the southwest of Gomel in neighbouring Belarus. ...

is now abandoned due to the

Chernobyl disaster On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only ...

, but the waterway retains its importance as part of the

–

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

route.

Southern Bug

Plans are announced to revitalize commercial freight navigation on the

Southern Bug The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (; ; ; or just ), and sometimes Boh River (; ),

as part of the increasing

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export from Ukraine.

Sea transport

Merchant marine

*Total: 134 ships ( or over) totaling / *

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by type: bulk carrier 3,

cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's List of seas, seas and Ocean, oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. ...

98, chemical tanker 1,

passenger ship A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freig ...

6, passenger/

5, petroleum tanker 8, refrigerated cargo ship 11, specialized tanker 2 (2010)

Sea ports and harbours

As of July 2013, Ukraine had 18 "marine trade ports" available for foreign ships' entry. Some of these "marine trade ports" are actually port conglomerates comprising several non-adjacent ports and tenant private terminals. Major river ports are also considered "marine" international ports. *

Berdiansk Berdiansk or Berdyansk (, ; , ) is a port city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south-eastern Ukraine. It is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, which is connected to the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Berdiansk Raion. The c ...

(

Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov is an inland Continental shelf#Shelf seas, shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. The sea is bounded by Ru ...

) ** Agro-CLASS (oil terminal) * Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky Seaport (

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) ** Port Buhaz (auxiliary) * Theodosia (Black Sea) * Chornomorsk (Black Sea)'' ( Ukrferry: Odesa —

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/ Varna)'' ** Aldi (specialized complex) ** Chornomorsk Fuel Terminal ** Chem-Oil-Transit-Ukraine ** Trans Bulk Terminal (grain complex) ** Ship Maintenance Factory ** Fishing port *

(

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/ Black Sea) ** Triton Services Agency Ukraine (oil pier) ** Portoflot (specialized terminal) *

Kerch Kerch, also known as Keriç or Kerich, is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea. It has a population of Founded 2,600 years ago as the Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, ancient Greek colony Pantik ...

(Black Sea) ** Zaliv Shipbuilding yard **

Port Krym Port Krym (, , - literally ''Port Crimea'') is a port in Crimea. It is located on the western shore of Kerch Strait, in the north-eastern part of Kerch city near a settlement of Zhukivka. Next to the port is located the Krym railway station. P ...

'' (

ferry A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus ...

: Kerch —

Port Kavkaz Port Kavkaz () is a small harbour on the Chushka Spit in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the eastern side of Kerch Strait. It is adjacent to the village of Chushka (rural locality), Chushka, which is now largely deserted due to the toxic effects of the ...

(

))'' ** Fishing port ** Oil terminal of fishing port ** TES-Terminal ** Port Kamysh-Burun (Azov Sea) *

Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...

( Dnipro river / Black Sea) ** Kherson Shipyard ** All-Ukrainian Industrial Union ** Palada *

Mariupol Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the coun ...

(Sea of Azov) ** Metallurgy Complex Azovstal ** Ship Maintenance Factory ** Freight terminal of ship maintenance factory *

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( ), also known as Nikolaev ( ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine. Mykolaiv is the Administrative centre, administrative center of Mykolaiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) and Myk ...

( Southern Bug river / Black Sea) ** Freight terminal of Nika-Terra ** Freight terminal of Okean ** Freight terminal of

Black Sea Shipyard The Black Sea Shipyard (; ) was a shipbuilding facility in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on the southern tip of the Mykolaiv peninsula. It was founded in 1895 by Belgian interests and began building warships in 1901. At the beginning of World War I in 1914, ...

** Freight terminal of Mykolaiv Alumina Factory ** Freight terminal of Nibulon ** Freight terminal of Greentour-ex ** Port of Mykolaiv Grain Elevator (grain terminal) ** Port

Ochakiv Ochakiv (, ), also known as Ochakov (; ; or, archaically, ) and Alektor (), is a small city in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast (region) of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Ochakiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. ...

** Dnipro-Buh Sea Terminal * Olvia (in Mykolaiv, Southern Bug river / Black Sea), a "specialized"

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s-transiting port * Port of Odesa (Black Sea) * Reni (

/ Black Sea) * Port of Sevastopol (Black Sea) ** Port

Balaklava Balaklava ( Ukrainian and , , ) is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklavsky District that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevast ...

(auxiliary) * Skadovsk (Black Sea) ** Port Khorly (auxiliary) ** Port Henichesk (auxiliary) * Ust-Dunaisk ( Vylkove) (Danube river / Black Sea) ** Port of Kiliya *

Yalta Yalta (: ) is a resort town, resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea. Yalta, along with the rest of Crime ...

(Black Sea) * Pivdenne (Black Sea) ** Trans invest service ** Trans invest service (containers) ** Sea Side (Ukraine) ** UkrTransNafta (oil terminal) ** Borivage (grain terminal) ** Transbunker-Yuzhny *

Yevpatoria Yevpatoria (; ; ; ) is a city in western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay. Yevpatoria serves as the administrative center of Yevpatoria Municipality, one of the districts (''raions'') into which Crimea is divided. It had a population of His ...

(Black Sea)

Other notable seaports

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(Black Sea) * Chornomorske (Black Sea) – Ukraine's

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base port

Important supporting agencies

* Delta Lotsman, the

maritime pilot A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or congested waterway, such as harbors or river mouths. Maritime pilots know local details s ...

company serving the territorial waters of Ukraine * "Derzhhidrohrafiya" (State Hydro Geography), a scientific-production complex of hydro-geographical state companies and science-research center "Ukrmorkartohrafiya" (all lighthouses located in Ukraine belong to the institution) The

Black Sea Fleet The Black Sea Fleet () is the Naval fleet, fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along with other Russian ground and air forces on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, are subordin ...

of the

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refuses to surrender former Soviet navigational facilities since 1997 * Maritime Security Agency in correspondence of the SOLAS International Convention (including its amendment the ISPS Code) * Shipping registry of Ukraine * Port registry of Ukraine

Shipping companies

* UkrFerry * Ukrrichflot * Ukrainian Danube Shipping, freight and passenger transportation company (primarily

river delta) * Black Sea Shipping Company, freight and passenger transportation company

Ship building and maintenance companies

* Ship building and maintenance companies of Ukraine

Pipelines

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(2010) *

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. The term ''petroleum'' refers both to naturally occurring u ...

(2010) * petroleum products (2010) *

ammonia Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the chemical formula, formula . A Binary compounds of hydrogen, stable binary hydride and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinctive pu ...

The natural gas transport-system can take in a maximum of 288 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. Its annual output capacity is 178.5 billion cubic meters, including 142.2 billion to be forwarded to European countries.Natural gas transit through Ukraine down 24.8% year on year

Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is Ukraine’s first and most prominent English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1995 in Kyiv by American businessman Jed Sunden. In 2018, the publication was acquired by prominent Ukrainian businessman Adnan Kivan, foun ...

(November 16, 2009)

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Economy

Transport infrastructure

International transport corridors

Transport industry

Rail

Network length (2010)

Rail links with adjacent countries

Metro

Roads

Principal roads

Bus

Aviation

Outlook

Airports

Airports with paved runways

Airports with unpaved runways

Heliports

Water transport

River transport

Danube

Dnipro

Pripyat

Southern Bug

Sea transport

Merchant marine

Sea ports and harbours

Other notable seaports

Important supporting agencies

Shipping companies

Ship building and maintenance companies

Pipelines

See also

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