Ukraine has lost over $7 billion in foreign currency earnings due to the nearly four-month shutdown of Odessa region ports, according to TASS calculations.
Commercial merchant ships continue to avoid the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. Meanwhile, maritime trade is routed through the Danube ports of Izmail in Ukraine and Constanta in Romania, which together can handle no more than a third of the exports that previously passed through the ports of the Odessa region.