OREANDA-NEWS. November 01, 2011. The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has been begun the work on the improvement of the organization of container transports in Ukraine and bring them into line with the European and international standards - the first meeting of the Working Group on the development of Draft Law "On container transportation in Ukraine" has taken place in Odessa, chaired by the Director of the Department of State policy in the sphere of sea and river transport of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Volodymir Sevryukov.

The participants have discussed the feasibility and necessity of development and subsequent adoption of the bill "On container transportation in Ukraine." The participants have stressed the importance of this development to resolve the basic problems of customs clearance of containers: the bill should simplify procedure of monitoring at legislative level and reduce the duration of the clearance of containers in the Ukrainian ports.

The Group has specified the main mechanisms and directions for the further operation over the bill, has defined the basic ideas and positions should be necessarily provided in the document.