Ukrainian Rada has opened the river for their own and foreign investors

Since 1991, the number of Ukrainian courts declined at a frantic pace. 25 years ago under our flag floating transports 375 tonnes deadweight 5, they became 155, and just 46 left in 2014 after ten years, but Ukrainian private companies owned by more than 200 ships flying under foreign flags, the use of which was restricted to the norms of the Code of Trade Maritime 1995.
According to article 131 of the document, implement kabiotazhnye foreign transportation by water transport can only be with the permission of the Ministry of Infrastructure. Naturally, the demand caused a lot of problems, up to reduce traffic on the Ukrainian rivers 10 times over the past 15 years. However, the government set out to solve the problem.

What did?

Fortunately, the opening of the international border crossing in the river port of Kiev, the authorities did not stop. 17 January BP adopted the bill №2712 amending the Merchant Shipping Code of Ukraine (KTMU) to promote the development of shipping in the country.
The draft law aims not only to attract foreign investment, but also aims to make life easier Ukrainian shipowners. The explanatory note to the document states its intention to remove the rate of 131 articles KTMU, thus avoiding bureaucratic delays at bringing transport under foreign flag to the waterways of Ukraine.
The developers of the bill hope that it will help solve many problems. In their view, the state support for the development of shipping will increase the tonnage of the fleet under the national flag, to attract investment in the logistics industry and contributes to the overall improvement of the investment climate in Ukraine.