The Ostchem nitrogen holding company, which brings together Group DF’s nitrogen business enterprises, has resumed seaborne exports of urea for the first time in seven years, Group DF’s press service reported on Wednesday.
“Ukraine has resumed seaborne exports of urea: for the first time in seven years, products from Ukrainian chemical manufacturers were shipped via sea,” the company emphasized.
According to the statement, a shipment of products manufactured by the Ostchem Group was exported through the port of Chornomorsk to international buyers in the Mediterranean region.
The total volume of the shipment was approximately 21,000 metric tons. The main export destinations were Italy and Turkey.
Among the buyers of Ukrainian urea were the U.S.-based Nitron Group and the South Korean Samsung C&T Corporation.
Group DF noted that the resumption of maritime exports occurred against the backdrop of a gradual stabilization of logistics chains and growing interest from international traders in Ukrainian products. A portion of Ostchem’s products also continues to be sold to European industrial consumers via land-based logistics routes.
The company is also in negotiations regarding new export shipments with a number of international traders and industrial consumers.
As previously reported, in April 2026, the plants of the Ostchem nitrogen holding began production of a new nitrogen fertilizer—AMS30 ammonium nitrate.
Ostchem is the nitrogen holding company of Dmitry Firtash’s Group DF, which brings together the largest producers of mineral fertilizers in Ukraine. Since 2011, it has included “Rivneazot” and Cherkasy-based “Azot,” as well as Severodonetsk-based “Azot” and “Styrol,” which are currently inactive and located in occupied territories.
