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The Odessa transport port may allow the construction of the new queue container terminal.

March 17, 2009.

The Cabinet of Ministers intends to allow on the quarantine mol Odessa ICC construction of the new queue container terminal. Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko at j.maciuviene on 5 March with trade unions working port Odessa promised that requested the Minister of transport and communication to a resolution of the meeting for consideration in the Government and to vote.

Recall that Odessa Sea commercial port in May 2006 announced a contest for this construction, with annual project bandwidth capacity of 1 million TEU. But, a month, the Ministry of transport and communications has abolished the contest decision Primorsky the District Court Odessa for City Council Deputy П. Selanina, which stated that the construction of the new queue container terminal in Odessa port violate environmental standards in the area.

Later, the leadership of the Odessa Sea port, several times tried to get permission for the construction of a new queue, Odessa authorities producing various amendments in construction project, the throughput capacity of the new container terminal was less than 400 thousand TEU.