{"id":237428,"date":"2021-10-11T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/?p=237428"},"modified":"2023-11-15T21:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:47:39","slug":"v-nashu-gavan-ne-zahodyat-korabli-porty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/en\/publication\/237428\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships do not enter our harbor anymore. Crimean ports and sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ports of Crimea occupied by Russia have been closed for ships by the decision of the Ukrainian government for eight years. Together with Western \u201cCrimean sanctions\u201d, this decision shaped their destiny \u2013 foreign and Ukrainian ships avoid Crimea. Cruise tourism disappeared in Crimea in 2014. As an outcome, occupants are not able to boast about large passenger or freight turnover in occupied ports. And they do not do it. On the opposite, they meticulously hide information about activity of Crimean ports under \u201cRussian management\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian information sources present incomplete data about freight turnover or ship visits to occupied ports and do not disclose information about ships entering closed ports, their profiles and freight destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This secrecy regime is called upon to hide ships, their owners, cargo consignors and recipients as all of them violate European and American sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanctions against occupied ports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerch trade and fishing ports, Kerch ferry and \u201cKamysh-Burun\u201d private port, Feodosia, Yalta and Yevpatoria trade ports as well as Sevastopol trade and fishing ports were active on Crimean peninsula before occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190199\" style=\"width: 731px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/news-2\/190194\/attachment\/port_kamysh-burun_kerch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-190199\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190199\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-190199\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/port_kamysh-burun_kerch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/port_kamysh-burun_kerch.png 700w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/port_kamysh-burun_kerch-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0 Kamysh-Burun Port in Kerch Photo: wikimapia.org<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crimean port infrastructure was occupied and used by Russians for quick transfer of troops and military equipment to the peninsula in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupants declared nationalization of ports immediately after the pseudo-referendum on March 16, 2014. The State Unitary Enterprise \u201cKrymskie morskie porty\u201d \\ \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d was set up. It included Kerch, Feodosia, Yalta and Yevpatoria trade ports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All objects of the Sevastopol port infrastructure were transferred to the unitary enterprise \u201cSevastopol sea port\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was no direct railway or automobile communication between Crimea and Russia at that time. That is why cargo and passenger transportation between Crimea and the occupying state was conducted through ports, and, primarily, through the Kerch ferry.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_226416\" style=\"width: 731px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/news-2\/226415\/attachment\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226416\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226416\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-226416\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd.png 1231w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kerchenskiy_most_gruzovoy_poezd-1024x591.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Freight train on the Kerch bridge, 30.06.2020 Photo: RIA Novosti \/ Vitaly Timkiv<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to the Russian occupation, Ukraine, the European Union and USA introduced sanctions. Though, not as quickly as they should.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine issued the order \u201cAbout Closing Sea Ports of Crimea and Sevastopol\u201d only on June 16, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDCU) applied sanctions against enterprise \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d in 2015 and against its branches \u2013 Kerch port and ferry, Feodosia, Yalta and Yevpatoria trade ports \u2013 in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, Ukraine also imposed sanctions on state unitary enterprise \u201cSevastopol sea port\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The USA imposed their sanctions against legal entities created by Russian occupants on the basis of Crimean ports in 2015-2016 whereas the European Union introduced them in 2014. However, the EU has not yet imposed sanctions against Yalta and Yevpatoria ports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanction restrictions and the ban on visiting closed ports made a serious impact on Crimean ports. After 2014, international freight turnover disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visits of foreign ships to Crimean ports violating sanctions gradually fell down. There were no such visits in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another serious hit was made by the occupants themselves. The so-called Kerch Bridge was built in 2017. Automobile part of the bridge was introduced first and the railway part followed. Today cargo and passenger transportation between Crimea and Russia is conducted through this Bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an outcome, freight turnover of Crimean ports (excluding Sebastopol) fell down from 11 million tons to 0,86 million tons in 2012-2020. Losses of \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d reached 718 million Rubles in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230416\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/topnews\/230399\/attachment\/kerchenskiy_torgoviy_port\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230416\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230416\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-230416\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kerchenskiy_torgoviy_port.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kerchenskiy_torgoviy_port.png 850w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kerchenskiy_torgoviy_port-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kerchenskiy_torgoviy_port-768x418.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kerch commercial port Photo: Isachenko Grigoriy<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kerch ferry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time of occupation, the Kerch ferry included two railway ferries by \u201cAnrusstrans\u201d company (\u201cAnnenkov\u201d and \u201cPetrovsk\u201d) and three automobile ferries \u2013 old \u201cKerchensky-2\u201d and \u201cYeysk\u201d and new one \u2013 \u201cNikolai Aksenenko\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February 2014, Russian Cossacks participating in the occupation of Crimea used these ferries to enter the peninsula. Russian state enterprise \u201cTis-Krym\u201d managing the ferry helped them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kerch Ferry was among the first Crimean objects seized by occupants. It transported the Russian military equipment to Crimea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ukrainian state shipping company \u201cKerchenska poromna pereprava\u201d \\ \u201cThe Kerch Ferry Line\u201d was nationalized by occupation \u201cauthorities\u201d of Crimea in March 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupation turned the ferry into the main transportation means uniting Russia and Crimea. In 2014, number of cars transported through Kerch Strait increased by five times, passengers \u2013 by 3,5 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupants reconstructed piers and supplied a number of new powerful ferries.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_209607\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/topnews\/209606\/attachment\/screenshot_34-42\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209607\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209607\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-209607\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screenshot_34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screenshot_34.png 1175w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screenshot_34-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screenshot_34-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screenshot_34-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Kerch, ferry Elena, Koksokhimtrans Company Photo Youtube MayhemWOT<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanctions had little impact on the work of the ferry. The opening of the Kerch Bridge in 2018 made its work unnecessary. In September 2020, the ferry \u201cAnnenkov\u00bb made its last trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerch port<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proximity to the Russian coast turned the Kerch port into the gates of the Russian occupation. Along with the Kerch ferry, the port received Russian ferries with occupation troops, equipment and cargo from Russian ports \u201cKavkaz\u201d and \u201cTemruk\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupants declared nationalization of the enterprise in March 2014. In response, Ukraine, USA and EU introduced sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It changed the structure of the freight turnover. As an outcome of sanctions, the share of cabotage between Crimea and Russia increased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ships conducting import \\ export and transit trips enter Kerch secretly, with turned off ship transponders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the opening of the Kerch Bridge, the volume of transshipment in the Kerch port fell tenfold, in accordance with reports of \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d. The Kerch port incurred losses during the period of occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feodosia port<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The declared capacity of the Feodosia trade port equals the capacity of the Kerch port.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the occupation, foreign ships could enter Feodosia only secretly, with turned off transponders. There are also Russian ships transporting the grain from Feodosia to friendly Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The freight turnover of the Feodosia port fell tenfold during occupation years. The Feodosia port is the most unprofitable branch of the \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d enterprise. Its losses amounted to 224 million Rubles in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, <\/span><b>the Center for Journalist Investigations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published the material \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/ua\/cr-sanct-ua-ports\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ports of Crimea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d. It focused on the impact of sanctions and effectiveness of various sanction regimes imposed on Russian port bodies illegally created on the basis of the property of Ukrainian state companies. We uncovered the list of Russian companies having direct connections with Crimean legal entities under sanctions or doing their business on the territory or in the water area of Crimean ports. This list includes Russian state companies (like federal state enterprise Rosmorport embracing Azov and Black Seas; \u201cRostovskii port\u201d; \u201cAdministration of sea ports of the Azov Sea\u201d) as well as Russian private companies like LLC \u201cAnRosKrym\u201d of Annenkov, the former Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia. Ferries of this company carried Russian military troops, equipment and Cossacks for the occupation of Crimea in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do these Russian companies have in common? They are covered only by Ukrainian sanctions and not included into sanction lists of the USA and EU. It is the task of the Ukrainian government to advocate for the introduction of restrictions for the port business of the country-aggressor. It is the logic of sanctions (for example, American sanctions): those persons who work with \u201ctoxic\u201d entities \\ entities under sanctions are at risk to be covered by sanctions, too. It should be also noted that neither Yalta nor Yevpatoria ports are included into the EU sanction list. However, this shortcoming is compensated by EU sectorial sanctions about Crimea. They ban entrances of ships to ports of the peninsula, including explicit ban on entrances of cruise ships. It means that Russian occupants \u201ckilled\u201d cruise tourism and ferry transportation to foreign ports in Sevastopol, Yalta and Yevpatoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yalta port<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is peculiar about the Yalta port is its focus on passenger transportation. The freight turnover has always been small.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yalta port was visited 109 times by cruise liners in the year before the occupation, in accordance with Andrii K;ymenko, the editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230417\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/topnews\/230399\/attachment\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230417\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230417\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-230417\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port.png 1152w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yaltynskiy_torgoviy_port-1024x659.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Yalta commercial port Photo: facebook.com\/SUE.RC.CSP<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When occupants declared the nationalization of the Yalta port in March 2014, they de facto cancelled all international cruises to Crimea as the following sanctions banned them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupied Yalta was attended several times by the ship \u201cKnyaz Vladimir\u201d (turned from the ferry to the \u201cliner\u201d). However, occupants failed to launch the regular cruise line Yalta-Sochi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, occupants introduced two hydrofoils between Sebastopol and Yalta, but only one hydrofoil \u201cKometa\u201d functioned in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides that, three old Soviet ships work on local lines along the Southern Coast of Crimea. Piers for them are gradually deteriorating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current freight turnover of the Yalta port is less than it has been before the occupation. Losses of Yalta port are almost equal to those of the Feodosia port.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yevpatoria port<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ukrainian state enterprise \u201cYevpatoria sea trading port\u201d was specialized in extracting and loading the sand from the water area of Donuzlav Lake. It constituted almost 70% of the freight turnover of the port.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_230419\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/topnews\/230399\/attachment\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230419\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230419\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-230419\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port.png 1053w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evpatoriykiy_torgoviy_port-1024x610.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Evpatoria commercial port Photo: crimeaports.ru<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25% of the turnover was shaped by the automobile ferry Yevpatoria \u2013 Zonguldak. The ferry line stopped its work after the introduction of Crimean sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2013, the freight turnover of the Yevpatoria port reached 977 thousand tons. It fell by 3-5 times under the Russian occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barbarian sand mining for the large-scale construction of the occupation infrastructure significantly reduces sand beaches of the Western Coast of Crimea. Bakalska sandspit is de facto destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sevastopol port<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Unitary Enterprise \u201cSevastopol sea port\u201d set up by occupants includes all civil objects of the city port infrastructure \u2013 Sevastopol sea trade and fishing ports, Captain Service of the Sevastopol sea fishing port and \u201cSevastopol branch \u201cDerzhgidrografia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSevastopol sea port\u201d was included into Ukrainian, EU and American sanction lists as it happened with \u201cCrimean sea ports\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_192532\" style=\"width: 733px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/news-2\/192531\/attachment\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-192532\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192532\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-192532\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port.png 891w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sevastopolskiy_morskoy_port-310x205.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-192532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sevastopol seaport Photo: avelana.ru<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2013, total freight turnover of the Sevastopol port reached 4,8 million tons. In 2020, it fell by 17 times. It is the data of the Association of Sea Trade Ports of the Russian Federation. \u201cSevastopol sea port\u201d does not disclose information about its freight turnover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal State Unitary Port \u201cRosmorport\u201d informs that six millions passengers were transported through all Russian sea terminals within seven months of 2021. The share of Sevastopol is astonishing \u2013 5,8 million people. However, it is not about long distance sea transport, it is about public sea transport of Sevastopol \u2013 ferries and boats travelling between city harbors every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the occupation, the Sevastopol sea port remained unprofitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Import and export<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90% of transportation in Crimean ports is about freight turnover with Russia. Foreign trade constitutes around 10%. It is the trade with countries not supporting international Crimean sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, it is the supply of grain to Syria and other countries of the Near East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grain is loaded at the Sevastopol terminal of stevedore company \u00abAvlita\u00bb. It belonged to Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. Then, it was sold to the Russian company \u201cMorskie I neftegazovye proekty\u201d. In its turn, this company is controlled by the giant of the Russian military industry \u2013 \u201cObjedinennaja sudostroitelnaja korporatsia\u201d \\ United ShipBuilding Corporation. The corporation is included into Ukrainian and American sanction lists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another grain terminal is located in Kerch \u2013 it is the ABC terminal. Unlike Avlita terminal, its Russian owners were not sanctioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Products brought to occupied Crimea through its ports include ilmenite for titanium factory, Armyansk branch of joint stock company \u201cUkrainian Chemical Products\u201d owned by oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Last year ilmenite was supplied through Kerch port \u201cKamysh-Burun\u201d. In 2021, the raw material for the production of titanium dioxide was transported to Sevastopol and Feodosia ports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanctions do work even in the case of the Armyansk titanium factory. This summer it did not function for two months, as it did not have enough ilmenite supply. Thus, there are fewer opportunities for violating sanction restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To sum up, Crimean ports are a remarkable example of the effectiveness of international sanctions introduced in response to the Russian attempt to annex Crimea. It is worth increasing the pressure \u2013 reforming the sanction legislation, expanding sanctions to cover all physical and legal persons somehow related to the occupation and introducing real responsibility for violating sanctions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":237397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32219],"tags":[24622,3624,38553,41706,52812,30110,1150,40640,20686,29530],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ships do not enter our harbor anymore. 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