The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law allowing the Shipping Administration to temporarily stop shipping during martial law or a state of emergency. The bill No. 7651 was generally supported by 261 MPs, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.

According to the explanatory note, the current legislation provides that the navigation period on inland waterways is year-round, and also defines an exhaustive list of cases when a break in navigation can be established, and when navigation is temporarily stopped on certain sections of waterways.

At the same time, this list does not take into account the issue of shipping during martial law..

The document fills this gap by allowing the Shipping Administration to temporarily stop navigation in areas that are dangerous due to the approach to territories where hostilities are taking place or where a state of emergency has been introduced..

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