Today, at the first meeting of the Committee of Ministers Tender for the selection of the investor who will participate in the development of the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, the Deputy Minister of the Development of the Communities and Territories of Ukraine, Andriy Kashuba, who was appointed Chairman of the Commission, announced that the public-private partnership project has attracted the interest of more than 40 port operators and investors international from four continents.

Kashuba highlighted that the project will involve the most significant investment in the history of Ukrainian ports by providing for Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on modernization infrastructure and equipment and that the project secure over $1.1 billion in state revenue over 40 years and the maintenance of over a thousand work. In addition, the deputy minister specified that the project expects the restoration of container traffic in the first three years up to a volume of 250 thousand TEUs per year, for subsequently rise to the pre-war level of over half a million of TEU.