Nika-Tera port suffered UAH 1 billion damage due to Russian shelling

The Nika-Tera port owned by Dmitry Firtash’s Group DF has been shelled by enemies more than 10 times in the 17 months of the war. The total damage caused by the shelling amounted to over UAH 1 billion.

This was stated by Oleg Arestarkhov, Head of Corporate Communications at Group DF, in a commentary to Forbes Ukraine.

“These are preliminary estimates, the actual losses could be much higher,” Arestarkhov said.

One of the largest strikes on the port was carried out by the Russians on June 4, 2022. As a result, 3 warehouses with a total area of 13,349 square meters and a total storage capacity of 105,000 tons of grains, oilseeds and their products were completely destroyed.

About 35,000 tons of sunflower meal burned in the warehouses. A large amount of other port property was also damaged: grain silos, hoppers, a grain drying complex, railway infrastructure, locomotives, various handling equipment, vehicles, electrical substations, gas and electricity supply systems, as well as administrative buildings, workshops and outbuildings.

No work is currently underway to restore the Nika-Tera port, as Mykolaiv is constantly shelled and the port is completely closed to ships.

During the year of war, the company managed to ship more than 237,000 tons of grain and 27,000 tons of corn from the port’s warehouses. These goods were exported as part of the “grain deal” through the ports of Greater Odesa, partly through the ports of the Danube and through land crossing points.

Currently, Nika-Tera has reorganized its operations into a “dry port” mode, starting to accumulate and transship domestically produced liquid fertilizers for farmers in southern Ukraine.

The company is currently developing a large-scale reconstruction project that will be implemented as soon as the war is over.

“The port’s strategy is simple now: we attract agricultural producers to transship grain cargo and processed products in the internal elevator mode, the so-called ‘dry port,'” Arestarkhov says.

“Nika-Tera’s capacity will allow it to accept up to 200,000 tons of agricultural products with the possibility of silo and warehouse storage. The next step is to restore the port, build new facilities and reach a new level.

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