Trade turnover through sea checkpoints in 2024 increased by 28.2% to 97.91 million tons, while by land it decreased by 8.1% to 64.3 million tons, the State Customs Service reported.
It added that, in addition, 26.1 million tons of goods were transported across the state border through pipelines and 6237.5 GWh of electricity through power lines, which is 8.1% less and 2.9 times more than in 2023, respectively.
According to the State Customs Service, the import of goods increased by 10.3% to 30.1 million tons, while exports increased by 10.9% to 132.1 million tons.
It is noted that the number of sea vessels crossing the customs border last year increased by 14.1% to 10.4 thousand, river vessels – by 3% to 34.4 thousand, while motor vehicles decreased by 6.8% to 7 million 670.2 thousand, and railroad cars – by 8.2% to 1 million 277.4 thousand.
In addition, the State Customs Service reports 0.2 thousand aircraft compared to 0.1 thousand in 2023.
The agency clarified that overland trade turnover increased only through the border with Poland – by 1%, to 32.83%, while through the Slovak and Romanian borders it decreased by 12% and 12.2% – to 13.36 million tons and 9.26 million tons, respectively, and through the Hungarian and Moldovan borders – fell by 22.1% and 26.5% – to 4.57 million tons and 4.27 million tons, respectively.
As for the number of vehicles crossing the border, it decreased at all borders last year: the lowest was with Moldova – by 3.4% to 1.44 million, with Poland – by 7.3% to 4.32 million, with Romania – by 7.4% to 1.51 million, with Slovakia – by 8.7% to 0.84 million, and with Hungary – by 10% to 0.90 million.
As previously reported by the State Customs Service, in monetary terms, exports of goods from Ukraine in 2024 increased by 18.5% to $41.6 billion, while imports increased by 11.3% to $70.7 billion.
