UDP areas of activities
The UDP fleet performs river transportation throughout the entire navigable part of the Danube river from Ukrainian ports and the port of Constanta (Romania) to the port of Kelheim (Germany) and in the opposite direction.
Range of cargoes: iron ore raw materials; coal and coke; grain cargoes; metals and general cargoes; fertilizers; 3 category petroleum products; cargoes in containers; machinery and equipment; oversized and heavy cargoes.
UDP offers its clients not only transportation by barge convoys, but integrated logistics solutions which include, e.g., loading at the point of departure, board-board loading onto large sea vessels and other services.
In 2023, the bulk of the cargo flow consisted of:
– export of grain from the Ukrainian ports on the Danube to Constanta,
– transportation of iron ore raw materials from Ukrainian ports to Serbia and transportation of grain in the opposite direction to Constanta.
24 pusher tugs and self-propelled dry cargo vessels, as well as more than 200 units of non-self-propelled fleet, are in operation in 2023. A standard convoy consists of a pusher tug and six barges or a self-propelled dry cargo vessel and five barges. The weight of cargo in pushed convoys reaches 13000 tons when moving upstream and 7000-85000 tons when moving downstream.
Since 2022, all of the UDP’s sea vessels have been equipped with a monitoring system which allows to control the vessel’s movements, fuel consumption and engine operation parameters online from the control centre in Izmail.
The company works directly with the cargo owners, without the involvement of any intermediary brokerage structures.
If you are a cargo owner or a cargo owner’s representative and intend to send your cargo by one of the ships operated by PJSC “UDP”, please contact us to clarify the chartering conditions by phone +38(093) 498 79 23, e-mail ruslan.svitlitskiy@udp.one. Or fill in the form https://forms.gle/SZUowTxJ4BMyPch16, indicating all of the necessary parameters of the ship consignment.
In 2023 the company resumed sea transportation.
UDP sea fleet includes six vessels of the “Izmail” type built on the order of UDP by the Viana do Castelo shipyard (Portugal).
More than ten year ago three of the six sea vessels were bareboat chartered. In 2022 UDP management decided to return the vessels under the company’s control. Currently, all of the sea vessels are under the state control.
Three more vessels have been laid up for a long time, it is practically impossible to restore them.
“Izmail” type – universal dry cargo vessels used for transportation of general cargoes, various bulk cargoes, grain and containers. The vessels were built with consideration of the Danube specifics. Due to their small draught they can enter the Danube ports, which makes them convenient for river to sea transportations which are in demand today.
In 2023 the first of the ships returned, the M/V “Vilkovo”, underwent major repairs. Due to the investments made, the company received a new vessel which will work for many more years. All of the necessary tests were performed, the permit documents were obtained, in late November 2023 M/V “Vilkovo” began operation.
Two more of the ships returned, the M/V “Izmail” and M/V “Reni”, also require major repairs.
Main characteristics of the ships of this series:
Ship length 88.15 m, width 15.50 m, side height 7.10 m, summer load line draught 5.67 m, displacement 5742 tons, speed 12 knots.
In autumn 2022 the UDP stevedoring complex in Kilia began operation.
Grain transshipment helps to ensure stable operation of the company’s fleet. This also allows to utilize the unused territory of the production sites more effectively.
Due to the creation of the transshipment complex, UDP can offer its clients and integrated logistics service, including transshipment in a Ukrainian port, river transportation by UDP fleet and board-board transshipment to sea vessel in the port of Constanta at a market rate.
In summer 2023 the complex reached a capacity of 50 thousand tons of grain per month.
The complex provides the maximum service: automatic sampling, a laboratory at the territory of the complex, mechanised unloading drop-side trucks, a warehouse equipped with a mechanized transshipment system.
The complex was upgraded in autumn 2023.
The pier is equipped with a truck unloader which moves the truck’s load directly into the receiving hopper. Moving the cargo from trucks to the barge hold is fully automated due to the line connected to the main technological line.
One more grain warehouse has been built. In order to increase the cargo acceptance volume, one more scale has been installed at the exit for weighing empty trucks. We are planning to make the entrance gate bigger.
We’re also considering the possibility of installing one more technological line for simultaneous loading of two barges.
Our further goal is to work with various types of cargoes: metal, mineral fertilizers, construction materials, etc.
The ship repair unit of PJSC “UDP” includes the Kilia Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Factory (SSSU “KSSRF”) and Izmail fleet maintenance facility, which allows to perform the entire fleet maintenance cycle.
On average, the repair units perform repairs with respect to 14-15 self-propelled vessels and up to 60 non-self-propelled vessels per month.
Kilia Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Factory
Located at the territory of the factory are: a mechanical shop, a shipbuilding shop, a carpentry shop, a part of a pipeline, an electrical section, a tool section, an oxygen station, a pumping station, a compressor station. All of the shops and sites have the necessary equipment.
The factory is equipped with a 270х120 m slipway with 6 building sites.
Types of repair works
Integrated repair and maintenance of ships and watercraft
Repair and maintenance of marine engines
Repair and maintenance of mooring and anchor equipment.
Repair of the propeller-rudder system and and restoration of propellers.
Manufacture of zero stage items and the irreducible stock.
Manufacture of LR 800A manual winches.
Izmail Fleet Maintenance Facility
The manufacturing structure of the fleet maintenance facility includes a mechanical site, an automation laboratory, a gas welding ship, a painting shop, a carpentry shop, a coastal electrical and radio navigation chamber and a site for cleaning and painting of drinking water tanks.
In 2023 the Izmail fleet maintenance facility became a part of the KSSRF, on the basis of which a joint ship repair unit of UDP was created. The process of modernization of the Izmail fleet maintenance facility has been started. Its objective is to integrate it into the joint fleet maintenance infrastructure consistent with the ISO international standards.
In the backwater number four a site for repair of non-self-propelled vessels was created. In 2023 two production sites were created, which allows to work on twice more vessels than before.
Types of works
Repair of main engines, auxiliary machinery, fuel equipment and ship automatic equipment.
Flaw detection of ship technical equipment and structures.
Diagnostics of ship technical equipment.
Electrical installation works.
Electric and gas welding works.
Mechanical metal processing.
Carpentry works.
Repair and inspection of gas welding equipment.
Cleaning and painting tanks for drinking water.
Repair and maintenance of residential equipment and refrigerator.
On June 21, in London UDP and IFC (International Finance Corporation) concluded an agreement for attracting investments for a major modernization of the tug fleet of the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company.
The concept of the fleet modernization is fundamentally different from the fleet renewal performed by the company since 2022.
Renewal includes major repairs of the main and auxiliary engines, mechanisms, the propeller-rudder system, hull, but the vessel fundamentally remains the same. For example, two 3000 hp tugs have been restored after being laid up for a long time. They allow to form up convoys consisting of 9 barges instead of 6.
The major modernization of a vessel includes replacing engines, installation of an automated control system, new cabins, etc., the result of which is a new vessel based on the old hull. The power system is to be replaced with a new, high-performance and economic, system. The engines, manufactured in accordance with the EU Stage V standards (a new environmental standard for reduction of harmful emissions) will be consistent not only with the modern EU environmental requirements, but also with the standards to be implemented by the EU in the future. This will allow the company not only to find new partners, but also to comply with the European requirements to ship power plants.
The first batch of ships to undergo major modernization includes self-propelled dry cargo vessels of the “Kapitan Antipov” type, built at the ÖSWAG shipyard in Linz, Austria. The avrega age of the vessels is 41 years.
IFC – International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. It specializes in attracting private investments to the economies of developing countries and is interested in joint projects with UDP, because river logistics is an important component of Ukraine’s sustainable development and integration into the EU.
In 2023, for the first time over a long period, UDP resumed construction of non-self-propelled fleet at the Kilia Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Factory.
In October 2023 the first barge of this type, the SLG-023, was launched.
The SLG barge length is 76.5 m, draught is 3.1 m, load capacity is 2200 tons.
A new vessel is built of unused lighters by conversion (connecting two lighters with an insert cut from the third lighter).
We are planning to convert all of the lighters in satisfactory technical condition into barges in the next 2-3 years. UDP will receive 5-6 more barge convoys.
Advantages of the construction of such barges:
– the cost of construction, which is significantly lower than the cost of construction of a new vessel,
– a higher load capacity, which allows to transport larger volumes of certain types of cargoes,
– the conversion is performed at our own manufacturing facilities.
History of building of SLG barges
First lighter-based barges of the UDP SL projects (18 units) were built in 1998-2000. The project was developed jointly by the Kilia Factory and the Marine Engineering Bureau.
In 2001 – 2005 20 more barges were built in accordance with the improved UDP SLG project, also developed by the KSSRF and the MEB.
Construction was suspended for a long time. 40 more vessels were planned to be built in 2017, but in the end the Kilia Factory only built two barges, SLG-21 and SLG-22, in accordance with the project developed by LLC “Grand Engineering”.
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UDP fleet
- UDP main fleet: River barge and tug convoys
- Composition of the convoys: 1 self-propelled vessel + 5 barges (deadweight 9 thousand tons) or 1 pusher tug + 6-9 barges (deadweight 9-13.5 thousand tons).
- Fleet: 24 self-propelled vessels and 204 barges.
- Types of vessels:
- “Kapitan Antipov” type self-propelled dry cargo vessels (19 unit, load capacity 1700 tons).
- Pusher tugs – “Riga/Ivanovo” type (28 units, 2000 hp), “Zaporozhye” (9 units, 2475 hp), “Sergei Avdeienkov” (8 units, 3240 hp), “Leningrad” (4 units, 2530 hp).
- Barges: 225 units of various projects, load capacity 1300-1600 tons.
- Universal dry cargo vessels: “Izmail” type (3 in operation).
- Characteristics: Deadweight 3700 tons, power 2700 hp, draught 6 m.
- Class: Marine class KM✦ICE2AUTI.
- Area of operation: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Mediterranean Sea, Danube and Dnieper ports.
- Capabilities: Transportation of various cargoes, including general cargoes, containers, metal, cars, oversized equipment and grain.
- Lighter (1635K): 86 units (79 in operation), deadweight 1000 tons.
- Pontoon (5506K, K563A):5 units, deadweight 1600 tons.
- “Desna” tanker (project 610):Deadweight 3300 tons (petroleum and fuel).
- Service and auxiliary tug (N035):3 units, power 1050 tons.
- Floating crane SPK-1/135:Load capacity 35 tons.
- Various vessels:A dive boat, a waste collecting boat, self-propelled vessels, floating cranes, repair vessel.
- Passenger vessels:5 units of various types and ages, loss-making since 2014, used for temporary accommodation or for repairs.