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Project Number

37312

Company Name

MV Cargo LLC

Date ESRS Disclosed

Sep 9, 2016

Country

Ukraine

Region

Europe

Last Updated Date

Nov 7, 2024

Environmental Category

B - Limited

Status

Completed

Previous Events

Approved : Jan 9, 2017
Signed : Mar 29, 2017
Invested : Aug 1, 2017

Sector

Other Support Activities for Transportation (Grain Terminals, Cargo Terminals, Airport Operations)

Industry

Infrastructure

Department

Regional Industry INF LAC & EUR

Project Description

MV Cargo Ltd (“MV Cargo” or “the company”) is developing a greenfield grain terminal that will be located in the Port of Yuzhny located in Ajalyk Estuary on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, approximately 30 km from Odessa. The grain terminal will have capacity of 5 million tonnes of grain per year (“the terminal”) and Berth No.25 (the “berth”) will be capable of handling vessels up to 100,000 tonnes deadweight tonnage (DWT). MV Cargo is owned by the co-owners of Trans Investment Service Group (“TIS Group”), the largest Ukrainian port complex. The grain terminal facilities will be developed by MV Cargo and upon completion of the project facilities Cargill Inc., a leading global agriculture commodities producer and trader, is expected to purchase 51% of stake of the company and become a major user and operate the terminal and berth.

Following the agreement signed with MV Cargo in March 2016, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (the “Authority”), a state enterprise responsible for supervising development, operation, and maintenance of the Ukrainian seaports and their infrastructure, will support the terminal development by designing, implementing and monitoring the necessary dredging works up to 16 meter depth for the connection of the berth to the inner channel of the Port of Yuzhny.

The terminal and the berth will be developed in two phases. IFC’s proposed investment (“the project”) consists of the first phase of the terminal and berth development. The first phase of the terminal development primarily entails construction of: (i) rail intake facilities with a capacity of 4 million tonnes of grain per year (two unloading points for two wagons each); (ii) truck intake facilities (six unloading points for trucks including trailer by means of truck tipplers), (iii) one unloading point suitable for (back) unloading trucks / tipping cars; truck buffer area, (iv) grain storage facilities (14 silos and one flat storage with capacity of 210,000 tonnes, one flat storage with 36,000 tonne capacity for multi-grain storage or 80,000 tonne capacity for single grain storage); (v) a grain cleaning and drying unit with capacity 150 tonnes per hour, (vi) a transport network of elevators and conveyors, (vii) a ship loader for loading of bulk grain on ships with a capacity of 2000 tonnes per hour; and (viii) off-site utilities (power supply, gas supply, potable water supply, sewage collection and pre-treatment, storm water collection, fire water network, security systems, communication networks). The first phase development of the berth will encompass construction of a 422 m berth in length on reclaimed land with one rail-mounted movable ship loader with capacity of 2,000 tonnes per hour and depth of up to 15 meters. The project will be connected to the rail station “Khimicheskaya” located in the Port of Yuzhny and operated by TIS Group. The second phase of the terminal development includes facilities for liquid bulk, additional flat storage and a second ship loader that will increase annual capacity of the facility to 6 – 8 million tonnes of grain.

The project will be constructed by direct contracting of services, works and equipment supply and installation. MV Cargo contracted TIS Gidrotekhnika as the project general contractor for the berth and terminal construction in June 2016. To date approximately 300,000 cubic meters of fill material has already been placed as part of required reclamation for the berth. It is expected that the project will become operational within two years from commencement of construction.

The project required acquisition of 11 land plots of total acreage of 28.01 ha. The company purchased nine of these land plots from its three private owners at market rates on a willing-buyer, willing-seller basis and two plots were acquired from the State Administration of Odessa region under long-term (49 years) lease agreements signed in March 2010 and September 2011.

IFC is considering an A Loan of up to $37 million to finance the project. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD”) is likely to be involved as a parallel lender providing a parallel loan of the same amount.

Overview of IFC's Scope of Review

IFC’s review of this project consisted of site visits to the location of the terminal and berth and to the terminals currently operated by TIS Group in the Port of Yuzhny in December 2015 and review of technical, environmental, health, safety and social information submitted by the company.

IFC reviewed the following project-related documents: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Berth No. 25, GT Project Ukraine, 2016; EIA for the Terminal, GT Project Ukraine, 2016; Environmental and Social Assessment for the project phase I, Tebodin-Ukraine CFI, February 2016; Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP), Tebodin Ukraine CFI, August 2016; Technical Due Diligence Report, Tebodin Ukraine CFI, December 2015 and Development of a new grain terminal in the Port of Yuzhny, Non-technical summary, Tebodin, September 2016. In addition IFC reviewed documents relevant to TIS Group operations of the existing terminals in the Port of Yuzhny such as the environmental monitoring program for 2015, TIS Group environmental management plan, 2007, and TIS Group environmental protection instructions, 2013.

Meetings and interviews were held with the TIS Group environmental protection manager, occupation health and safety (OHS) manager, human resource (HR) manager, security manager, representative of TIS Group labor union and Cargill staff assigned to this project.

E & S Project Categorization and Applicable Standard

Environmental and Social Mitigation Measures

Stakeholder Engagement

Broad Community Support

Environmental & Social Action Plan

Client Documentation

File Name Actions
Berth n 25 EIA April 2016 .pdf
EIA Terminal MAy 2016 .pdf
MV Cargo _SEP_24 08 2016-3.pdf
MV Cargo_Non Technical Summary Sep 2016-1.pdf