Analysis of the work of Ukrainian sea ports and prospects of their development based on the container terminal “Transport Investment Service”

Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of the Ukrainian sea ports administration work. Particular attention was paid to container terminals, as being much-in-demand to date. As a result of the statistical analysis of the operation of container terminals in Ukraine, it is specified that one of the most promising terminals having a sufficiently high development potential and increasing volume of container traffic handling is a container terminal “Transport investment service” (“TIS”). This container terminal has all the necessary resources and environment for the development and successful competition with other ports of Ukraine. In this regard, the authors propose a “TIS” container terminal modernization model and make an assessment of its performance in view of this modernization. The outcomes show that the implementation of the proposed terminal operational model will enable the company to become one of the leaders in container handling in Ukraine. Based on a systematic analysis of the documentary clearance of goods at the port, the authors suggest designing a new document workflow model. The proposed approaches are modular in nature and can be generalized for their use as a standard project decisions while modernizing similar container terminals