Annually, the leading experts in the marine and economic sector of Ukraine recognize the main achievements of the year. According to the organizers, the National Maritime Rating of Ukraine is also known as  “Ukraine’s Maritime Oscar”.  About 250 participants, including more than 100 managers of companies and organizations of the sector, participated in the event. Real achievements are the main criteria. As it was informed earlier, NIBULON’s General Director, Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Vadaturskyy has won under the “Person of the Year” category for the third time. On August 27, Kostiantyn Ilnytskyi, the head of the organizing committee of the National Maritime Rating of Ukraine and a director of the “Ports of Ukraine” magazine, gave the award to Oleksiy Vadaturskyy during a business forum in Odesa.  The experts recognized O.Vadaturskyy’s contribution to the development of inland waterways, shipbuilding, as well as cargo transportation along the Dnipro River. They also mentioned his achievements in “the river transportation volumes, export sale of grain crops, the development of shipbuilding and the Dnipro coastal grain infrastructure, as well as the efficient fleet construction. He was named “the only businessman who is trying to develop the sea and river transportation as well as to construct vessels in the Ukrainian shipyards”.    Oleksiy Vadaturskyy shared this nomination with the President of the Association of Maritime Agencies of Ukraine, Shota Khajishvili. According to one of the experts, NIBULON has entered the TOP-5 innovators in the agrarian sector, having created a network of 27 modern transshipment terminals and complexes for grain and oilseeds receipt, storage, and shipment. It is Ukraine’s largest terminal network with a simultaneous storage capacity of 2.1 million tons. In 2019, NIBULON put into operation the largest 140-m NIBULON MAX “river-sea” class crane vessel.   Among the river transport achievements in 2019, the experts also mentioned NIBULON’s  high-capacity transshipment terminal for grain and oilseeds shipments which was put into operation in Ternivka village (Vilniansk district, Zaporizhzhia region) and also the construction of NIBULON’s transshipment terminal in Marianske village (Apostolove district, Dnipropetrovsk region).Traditionally, NIBULON is an absolute leader under the “Fleet Renewal” category. The company received an award for the construction of the NIBULON MAX 140-m floating vessel, the largest one in the history of Ukraine’s independence, built at NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard.   The company has also entered the top three leaders under the “Golden Ton” category. We would remind you that NIBULON and Oleksiy Vadaturskyy have become prize-winners of the National Maritime Rating of Ukraine under the categories, such as “Person of the Year on Water Transport”, “Growth Rate”, “Absolute Growth”, “Fleet Renewal”, and “Golden Berth”.