Northern Black Sea: Port security risk update
Grain on the jetty of Constanta Port. Image: Risk Intelligence 2022
The impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and subsequent war, have been felt across many areas of the shipping and wider logistics industry. Our PortRisk team has been on the ground looking at how goods are diverting and where the alternative grain loading has been taking place.
12 August 2022
This week, our PortRisk team has been on the ground in northern Black Sea ports looking at how goods are diverting and where the alternative grain loading has been taking place.
Constanta has seen huge increases in container traffic and the port is working incredibly hard to ensure there is as little disruption as possible as the goods move to land transport.
Grain loading operations in Izhmail are busy with vessels and the marine traffic in the Danube, canals and associated anchorages is already proving challenging.
Our travelling Risk Intelligence teams are meeting with contacts to clarify the ground truth of the conditions facing vessels, masters and crews when they are operating in the shadows of the Russian aggression. This week’s Northern Black Sea Weekly Intelligence Report contained intel and images from several ports in Ukraine and Romania visited during the PortRisk team’s trip.