https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/BLAC...ic-tracker
For those of you who are interested in what closing the Sea of Azov to Russian shipping would accomplish, take a look at this vessel tracking site. There is a continuous stream of traffic to Rostov-on-Don and points north. Cutting this link would be a brobdingnagian(yes, I used the abbreviation :-) economic blow to Russia in that area. Lots of stuff enters and leaves Russia this way. Moving it all to Novorossiysk isn't practical because 1) the port is too small. Loading and unloading delays would be massive, and 2) transportation out of that part of Russia to the rest of the country is limited. It is great for grain shipping, but only recently has become a significant container port. The port can't handle the additional volume, period. Not to mention the delays in time and increase in cost of what does come that way.
In addition, there is already lots of traffic into and out of that area that needs to continue. To be clear, it is a bigger volume port than Rostov-on-Don, but it can't handle the traffic for both. In addition, lots of the support infrastructure for the offshore oil industry is located in Rostov-on-Don. There are lots of manufacturers there. They build oil rigs and such that are then towed to where they are needed. That traffic can't be moved.
For those of you who are interested in what closing the Sea of Azov to Russian shipping would accomplish, take a look at this vessel tracking site. There is a continuous stream of traffic to Rostov-on-Don and points north. Cutting this link would be a brobdingnagian(yes, I used the abbreviation :-) economic blow to Russia in that area. Lots of stuff enters and leaves Russia this way. Moving it all to Novorossiysk isn't practical because 1) the port is too small. Loading and unloading delays would be massive, and 2) transportation out of that part of Russia to the rest of the country is limited. It is great for grain shipping, but only recently has become a significant container port. The port can't handle the additional volume, period. Not to mention the delays in time and increase in cost of what does come that way.
In addition, there is already lots of traffic into and out of that area that needs to continue. To be clear, it is a bigger volume port than Rostov-on-Don, but it can't handle the traffic for both. In addition, lots of the support infrastructure for the offshore oil industry is located in Rostov-on-Don. There are lots of manufacturers there. They build oil rigs and such that are then towed to where they are needed. That traffic can't be moved.