Морпорт. Фото: transport-journal.com
While Ukrainian officials state that Ukraine has a huge transit potential, our country is still losing ground in this direction. Moreover the one is left behind the global transit flows during the last years. It is the processing of transit cargo in 2020 that is at the greatest disadvantage, because the famous international transit infrastructure project for the delivery of goods from China to the EU serving multibillion-dollar commodity flows has been bypassing Ukraine along alternative routes for many years. A significant contribution to the decline of Ukraine's transit potential was made not only by its poor-quality roads but also by customs arbitrariness: once overcoming the barriers of Ukrainian customs, any transit country will choose alternative routes for the future — Turkey, Belarus, or Romania.