Kovel Porto is strategically located at the crossroads of the Three Seas region, connecting the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas. This position is strengthened by advanced intermodal infrastructure, including both European and Ukrainian rail gauges (1435 mm and 1520 mm) and direct access to the E37 highway—part of an international road network linking major cities and economic centers. Situated at the intersection of key transport corridors, the Kovel Porto Intermodal Terminal enables efficient, rapid cargo handling and supports the growth of international trade and logistics across the region, aligning naturally with the goals of the Three Seas Initiative.

The Kovel Porto oil terminal provides reception, transshipment, processing, and storage of light petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and other light fractions. Special equipment allows for the handling of large volumes, with storage in oil tanks designed to preserve substance composition, prevent evaporation, and ensure safety. The terminal also supports necessary processing and subsequent transportation or use in the production cycle.

The logistics of light petroleum products includes many stages from production to delivery to the final consumer, so the oil terminal becomes one of the most important links, on which the speed and cost of the entire process depends. The economic benefit of using the services of our oil terminal is determined by the presence of a wide set of modern specialized systems in one place.

Terminal Capacity

Location and Infrastructure of Kovel Porto

The terminal's strategic location near the E37 international highway and at the crossroads of the Tri-Seas maritime routes (Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas) makes it accessible for all transportation options, including sea, rail, and road. This significantly simplifies, accelerates, and reduces the cost of logistics processes.

The infrastructure includes large storage tanks of varying capacities that meet technological and safety standards. Cargo platforms are equipped for efficient transshipment without associated losses or damage. The terminal employs modern technologies for storage and transportation, including automated systems for monitoring fluid levels and pressure in tanks. High-strength pipelines ensure continuous transportation with minimal leakage risks. Special sensors monitor the condition of light petroleum products in real time.

The terminal area is fully equipped for the transportation and storage of petroleum products, with access roads, gas, electricity, and water supply. All engineering is modern and well-planned. Video surveillance and physical security systems are in place, and processes are highly automated and digitized, integrating with modern software and product accounting systems. The terminal employs qualified and responsible personnel.

Key Services of the Oil Terminal Include:

• Loading and unloading petroleum products from various transport types, including rail platforms and vehicles. Specialized equipment ensures careful and quick transshipment, reducing downtime.

• Processing services for various types of petroleum products, including purification, filtration, and blending.

• Storage of light petroleum products in specialized tanks with appropriate pressure and temperature control.

• Customs clearance services, customs control, and declaration services for export and import.

• Logistics services, organizing the transportation of petroleum products.

• Security and safety services for the terminal and oil storage areas.

• Technical maintenance, repair services for various terminal systems.

• Consulting services for Kovel Porto residents regarding terminal operations and related business processes.

Invitation to Residents and Investors for the Development of the Oil Terminal

The terminals and the Kovel Porto Industrial Park are currently under development, and investors are invited to collaborate within the General Development Plan. We offer favorable conditions, quick payback, and high investment profitability.

A specialized oil terminal is an infrastructure designed for storing, processing, and transporting oil products. It includes large tanks for handling, loading, unloading, refining, and storing oil products, as well as transferring them from road or rail tanks to sea tankers, rail, or road transport.

Ukraine ranks first globally, producing 20-24% of the world’s sunflower oil, making its export strategically important. The Kovel Porto terminal infrastructure optimizes logistics, reducing storage and processing costs for oil products. All unloading, refining, storage, and related documentation processes are conducted in one place, making it economically advantageous.

Terminal Capacity

Strategic Location of the Kovel Porto Oil Terminal

The oil terminal is strategically located at the intersection of the Tri-Seas maritime routes between the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas and serves as an important railway hub with both European and Ukrainian tracks (1520 mm and 1435 mm). Another advantage is its proximity to the E37 international highway.

These three factors make the oil terminal accessible for all logistics processes and types of transport. Its location near the industrial park and Kovel Porto’s container and grain terminals allows for integration across various industries related to oil processing and utilization.

Advantages of Using the Oil Terminal:

• High safety standards for handling oil products.

• Modern equipment allows processing various oil products while reducing time and costs.

• Ensures continuity of raw material supply and enhances production efficiency.

• Optimizes processes of transportation, storage, and transshipment.

• Environmental safety, modern emission control, waste disposal systems, and energy-efficient equipment.

Oil Terminal Services:

• Storage of oil in long-term and short-term cycle tanks for oil and its derivatives.

• Cargo handling during transportation, including transferring from road tanks, tankers, or rail tanks to other rail, sea, or road transport.

• Logistics services – organizing and monitoring product transportation.

• Customs control, quality laboratory analysis of cargo, customs clearance operations, and declaration services for export and import goods.

• Technical maintenance and repair of terminal systems.

• Cargo security services, access control, video surveillance, and terminal territory protection.

• Consulting services for Kovel Porto residents on organizing oil terminal operations, logistics, transportation, and documentation.

Kovel Porto Infrastructure

The oil terminal area, according to the General Plan, is specifically equipped for efficiently performing all necessary operations related to the receipt, storage, processing, and dispatch of oil products. Specialized equipment, modern management systems based on digital software, and integrated cargo movement control with various accounting and logistics systems are utilized.

The terminal’s infrastructure includes a network of roads and a complete set of engineering communications, from electricity and gas supply to water supply and drainage. The staff working at the terminal is qualified and experienced, ensuring smooth, quick, and efficient operational and technical maintenance.

Regarding the infrastructure, it’s important to note the safety measures in place – a network of video surveillance and territorial security has been established, along with the implementation of fire and sanitary safety measures, significantly reducing the risk of product loss or damage.

Inviting Residents and Investors to Develop the Oil Terminal

The terminals and the Kovel Porto Industrial Park are currently under development, and investors are invited to collaborate within the General Development Plan. We offer favorable conditions, quick payback, and high investment profitability.

The large, modern grain terminal is a high-tech complex for receiving, storing, processing, and transshipping grain crops. Equipped with automated systems, the terminal efficiently handles large volumes of products. The Kovel Porto grain terminal includes powerful silos, modern dryers, cleaning facilities, and loading elements. By using advanced monitoring and quality control technologies, the terminal ensures a seamless grain processing and storage process.

Ukraine is a major global grain producer, and this grain terminal plays a crucial role in the agricultural supply chain, connecting producers with consumers through efficient logistics solutions, including sea, rail, and road transportation. The terminal can store wheat, corn, barley, sunflower seeds, soybeans, and other agricultural products.

Grain Terminal Capacities

Logistics and Infrastructure Solutions of the Terminal

The terminal's strategic location at the crossroads of the Tri-Seas route between the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas, along with European and Ukrainian rail tracks (1520 mm and 1435 mm), and its proximity to the E37 highway, enables the use of all types of transport and grain transshipment schemes, including wagon-to-wagon, wagon-to-container, wagon-to-truck, and vice versa. Additionally, the terminal offers grain and grain product packaging into big bags.

Separate from the grain installations, there are areas available for storing, packaging, and transshipping mineral fertilizers and other bulk products.

The terminal's infrastructure includes an extensive road network, energy supply, gasification, water supply, and drainage. The territory is under video surveillance and physical security, with strict adherence to sanitary and fire safety standards.

Grain Terminal Services

• Storage of grain, grain products, mineral fertilizers, and other bulk products (collaboration with farmers, grain supply contracts).

• Cargo handling during transportation, including transshipment from trucks or railcars to another rail, sea, or road transport.

• Logistics services – organizing and monitoring product transportation along optimal routes.

• Quality control, including laboratory analyses for moisture, cleanliness, density, and pest presence.

• Customs control, customs clearance operations, and declaration services for export and import goods.

• Technical maintenance and repair of grain terminal systems.

• Cargo security services, access control, video surveillance, and terminal territory protection.

• Consulting services for Kovel Porto residents on organizing grain terminal operations, logistics, transportation, and documentation.

The terminal operates according to modern standards, with processes highly automated and digitized, and involves qualified personnel. Service costs depend on the volume, quality, and duration of product storage and can be fixed or variable.

Inviting Residents and Investors to Develop the Grain Terminal

The terminals and the Kovel Porto Industrial Park are currently under development, and investors are invited to collaborate within the General Development Plan. We offer favorable conditions, quick payback, and high investment profitability.

One of the key cargo locations at Kovel Porto is the container terminal, a specialized logistics center designed for handling containerized cargo. This includes all goods transported in standard containers via sea, rail, and road without the need for unpacking. This efficient and secure method is preferred by many companies worldwide.

Container Terminal Overview:

• 43 wagons on 1520 mm track

• 45 wagons on 1435 mm track

• Simultaneous storage capacity of up to 3,000 TEU,
  equivalent to 99,000 m³ of cargo in containers

• Planned terminal capacity of 50,000 TEU per year

• Immediate access to E37 motorway, Berlin – Warsaw – Kyiv

   

Container Terminal Services

• Loading and unloading containers, and moving them across the terminal using cranes and transporters.

• Container storage and warehouse rental services.

• Customs control, cargo analysis, customs clearance, and declaration services for export and import goods.

• Logistics services, including organizing domestic and international shipments.

• Container maintenance and repair.

• Cargo security, access control, video surveillance, and terminal territory protection.

• Consulting services for Kovel Porto residents on terminal operations, logistics, transportation, and documentation.

Cargo Handling Capacity of Kovel Porto Terminal

Containers are stored in specialized zones with easy access for freight transport. Handling capacity is measured in TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units):

• 20-foot container (1 TEU): 20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8.5 feet high – approximately 33 cubic meters.

• 40-foot container (2 TEU): 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8.5 feet high – about 67 cubic meters.

Kovel Porto’s annual capacity is 100,000 TEU, a significant figure, and it can accommodate up to 3,000 TEU simultaneously, equivalent to 99,000 cubic meters of containerized cargo.

Container Terminal Infrastructure

The terminal area is specifically designed for the convenient loading, unloading, stacking, and storage of containers. Most cargo operations are performed using cranes and specialized equipment like stackers, container carriers, and terminal management systems.

Modern digitization is actively used, with software for cargo management, container tracking, and integration with various accounting, control, and logistics systems. A full range of engineering communications is provided, including electricity, gas, water supply, sewage, and drainage.

The construction of roads within the terminal allows for convenient cargo transportation and supports the entire production or business cycle, whether based within the Kovel Porto Industrial Park or beyond.

Management of Terminal Processes

Process management at the container terminal is carried out by a team of qualified operations, logistics, and maintenance managers, as well as various specialists who coordinate operational aspects and ensure that the Kovel Porto interaction system is as efficient as possible. Infrastructure development includes waste management, the use of energy-efficient equipment, and recycling and disposal programs, which benefit the region's ecology.

Economy and Security of the Container Terminal

Economically, using the services of the Kovel Porto terminal is cost-effective and justified. Since all operations related to unloading, clearance, storage, and logistics are performed in one place, it saves time and money, reduces transportation, personnel, and operational costs, optimizes business processes, and provides additional economic benefits.

Implemented security measures at the terminal, including video surveillance, security, fire safety, and sanitary standards, also help reduce costs and ensure cargo preservation, reducing losses or damage.

Inviting Residents and Investors to Develop the Container Terminal

The Kovel Porto Industrial Park is currently in the development phase and invites investors to cooperate within the General Development Plan. We offer favorable conditions, quick payback, and high investment profitability.