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November 15-16, 2007, Odessa , Ukraine
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On November 15-16, 2007, in Odessa and Illichevsk (Ukraine) the First International Black Sea Container Summit 2007 was held. It was timed to the opening on November 16 the new container terminal in Illichevsk Commercial Sea Port. The operator and investor of the terminal — UKRTRANSCONTAINER Company that is a subsidiary of Russian National Container Company — he leader among |
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Organizers of the summit — PORTS OF UKRAINE Publishing House and the Centre for Information and Analytics BLACKSEATRANS. General sponsor — UKRTRANSCONTAINER. |
he summit took place in the framework of BSEC activities. This Organisation for Black Sea Economic Cooperation is chaired by Ukraine now. |
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The summit was intended to become a review of ‘container forces’ of the Black Sea region in the context of intensifying competition — including that with East Mediterranean container hubs. Participants of the summit were able to get maximally full information concerning the current situation in both world container market (thanks to the reports read by representatives of the authoritative consulting companies like |
Drewry Shipping Consultants from Great Britain and Global Institute of Logistics from the USA) and in the Black Sea regional market. The latter became available due to the reports of representatives from all Black Sea countries — Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria. |
The speaker’s reports involved topics of the future of container carriages in the Black Sea basin, lack of terminal capacities in the region and the boom in building of new terminals, as well as in reconstruction and development of existed ones. In fact, all operative terminals and those, which are only designed or under construction in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Georgia, were concerned. The speakers also gave analysis of barriers constraining container transit, touched the prospects for its growth and the issues of transshipment. |
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About 150 top managers of the industry — delegates of companies, ventures, organisations related to container business; representatives of governmental authorities and mass media took part in the event. The summit gathered people from 17 countries of the world: Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Great Britain, UAE, Estonia, Finland, Moldova, USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and, naturally, Ukraine. |
Representatives of the most significant global container terminal operators participated in the work of the forum, such as Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Port Singapore Authorities (PSA), Dubai Port World (DP World), International Container Terminal Service Inc. (ICTSI), National Container Company. There were senior officers and delegates from the sea ports of Illichevsk, Odessa, Nikolaev, Novorossiysk, Sevastopol, Constantza, Poti in the conference hall, as well as from port administrations and associations of Bulgaria and Turkey; representatives of stevedoring companies like SOCEP, NUTEP, TRANSINVESTSERVICE, METALSUKRAINE and shipping companies like Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Mitsui O,S.K. Lines (MOL), ARKAS, Royal Boskalis, Volga-Don Shipping Company, UKRFERRY; manufacturers of container handling equipment: Kalmar, Konecranes, Fantuzzi – Reggiane; transport and forwarding companies — KUEHNE+NAGEL, TRANSCONTAINER, Russian Container, United Transport Holding, Far Eastern Transport Group, ILLICHEVSKVNESHTRANS, Kaalbay Logistics, Global Container Service and others. |
In the framework of the summit’s agenda there was the presentation of McLean-Club — the one for professionals of container business named after Malcolm McLean, the patriarch of container carriages. The club’s website www.McLeanClub.com will become available from December 2007. |
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On the second day of the event, on November 16, 2007, the delegates participated in the ceremonial opening of the new container terminal in Illichevsk Port. The terminal is the most capacious in Ukraine. It is the only one able to accommodate regularly large ocean container carriers performing direct calls at the port of Illichevsk en route from Asia. PE UKRTRANSCONTAINER is operating the terminal. |
Investments in the new terminal amounted to more than 51M USD. Its throughput capacity increased to 850,000 TEU annually. Till here in the Black Sea region only the container terminal in the Romanian port of Constantza has had such capacities. |
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