On December 19, 2013, Director of Department of National Projects of Ukraine Yuriy Gusev informed about it.
“Over the last 20 years the number of cargo carriage along the Dnipro and the Southern Bug River has decreased in 10 times. If in 1991 the figure was 60.1 million tons per year, then in 2010 – only 6.6 million tons; such a tendency is observed in passenger transportation”, mentioned Yuriy Gusev. “The project ‘River Infrastructure’ will help to increase the volume of cargo transportation of grain crops by water transport in Ukraine, to revive navigation along the Dnipro River; and also the ways of international connection from Belarus to the Black Sea will be opened to investors.
“Dangerous (limiting) parts in the Dniprovsk and Dniprodzerzhynsk Reservoirs and also insufficient carrying capacity of navigation pass of the Southern Bug River are among the main reasons that restrain cargo and passenger navigation and decrease cargo transportation volume”, said Andriy Vasylev, deputy general director on legal and economic issues of NIBULON. “During the Soviet period this problem could not be removed because of absence of the required equipment”.
“At present dredging, namely rock crushing on the limiting parts of the Dnipro and the Southern Bug Rivers, is possible thanks to modern and powerful machinery”, mentioned Andriy Vasylev. “River bottom deepening will contribute to cargo turnover increase among the southern sea ports and river ports located in the Dniprodzerzhynsk, Kremenchuk and Kaniv Reservoirs that will contribute to increase of working places and average wage of employees”.
Within NIBULON’s investment project there have been constructed and put into operation 7 river transshipment terminals in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Mykolayiv regions. Own cargo fleet numbers 36 floating units with the total deadweight of 131.08 thousand tons. It is planned to perform dredging on the limiting parts of the Dnipro River till the end of 2015.

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The project “River Infrastructure” (a part of the National Project “Grain of Ukraine” is implemented by the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine. TheNational Project provides for increase of cargo transportation and passenger transportation volumes that will favour the increase of river fleet, working places in the related sectors, and volumes of shipbuilding and ship repair. Due to the project implementation, the ways of international connection from Belarus to the Black Sea will be opened to investors. The project consists of cargo fleet construction, transport infrastructure to store and transship grain (elevators and transshipment terminals), dredging of the limiting parts of the waterways, locks reconstruction.
NIBULON was established in 1991. It is one of the largest domestic agricultural producers and exporters, leaders of Ukraine’s agrarian market. At present NIBULON has invested UAH 11.9 billion in Ukraine’s economy. The company has developed its infrastructure to 43 branches in 12 regions of Ukraine and efficiently tills 81 thousand ha of leased agricultural land. NIBULON is a leader in export of grain and oil crops in Ukraine.