Ukraine

Ukraine is one of the biggest markets in Eastern Europe and one of advanced economies in TRACECA region. It borders:

·      by land with Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia;

·      by sea Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia and Turkey.

Owing to its geographical location, Ukraine benefits from the passage of a number of international transport corridors through its territory:

·      4 Pan-European corridors (III, V, VII and IX) – rail and road

·      6 OSJD corridors (No3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10) – rail

·      Transport Corridor Europe - Caucasus - Asia (TRACECA) – multimodal

·      TEN-T central transport axis – 3 rail and 4 road routes.

Ukrainian transport network covers 21.7 th km of railways, 169.5 th km of roads and 2.2 th km of inland waterways. Also the network includes 18 sea and 10 river ports.

The policy of Ukraine in the field of transport is defined in the following documents:

·      Ukraine Transport Strategy 2020 (approved in October 2010)

·      Ukraine Maritime Doctrine 2035 (approved in October 2009)

·      Ukraine Sea Ports Development Strategy 2015 (approved in July 2008)

·      Ukraine Railway Transport Development Strategy 2020 (approved in December 2009)

·      Concept for Ukraine National Transport Network Development and Operation (1997) supported by National transport network development program for the period of 2006-2010

·      Concept for Ukraine Road transport development program (adopted in August 2011)

To address the existing challenges for MOS and ILC promotion, two TRACECA projects made a pre-screening for potential pilot projects. The pre-screening was based on the multi criteria analysis of proposed pilot, which helped to narrow down the pilot projects list.

As a result of the first phase of MOS I and ILC implementation, for the 4 above mentioned pilot projects, feasibility studies were elaborated.

The LOGMOS team carried out a comprehensive country analysis covering the national transport policy, strategic challenges, legal environment and investments in the transport and logistics sector. Findings of this study were reflected in a Country Profile based on the following structure:

Introduction

National Transport Policy

Legal Environment in the field of Transport

National Policy and Legislation in Trade and Transit

Investments in Transport and Logistics Sector

Strategic Challenges

Pilot Projects Selected for MoS I and ILC Projects

Full text of the Country Profile, Project Fact Sheets and a SWOT analysis are available under the above links.