Strengths - The group of stevedoring companies with sufficient capacity for transshipment of a wide range of goods
- Natural depth and year-round navigation and a high level of coverage with navigation safety systems
- Ability to work with all modes of transport (railway, trucks, internal waterways)
- Developed railway infrastructure
- Modern infrastructure
- Proximity of centers of consumption and production of mass cargos to some ports
- Growth of dry cargo turnover
- Development of container transportation by building modern container terminals
- Stable financial condition
- Skilled labor and management personnel
- Many years of experience
- Availability of public-private partnership mechanisms
| Opportunities - Favorable geographical location at the intersection of international transportation corridors, as well as large transit potential
- Competitive tariffs
- Development of transport corridors
- Possibility of reducing transportation costs and delivery times compared to alternative routes
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Weaknesses - Geographic remoteness from places of production of certain types of cargo (coal, mineral fertilizers)
- Bottlenecks in approaches to ports from railways and highways
- Unsatisfactory technical condition of port facilities and equipment
- Insufficient processing speed for certain cargo
- Low degree of containerization of cargo flows
- Inadequate legislation in the area of seaports
- Insufficient past investments in updating port infrastructure
- Underdevelopment of public-private partnership mechanisms
- Low level of innovation and new port technologies
- High costs for power supply to ports
- Difficult ecological situation
| Threats - Low percentage of transit capacity utilization
- High competition in the industry
- Creation of container terminals in the ports of Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and the Baltic countries
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