The Sulina Channel queue, in figures, every Monday

How long vessels wait at the Sulina roads, how many get into the canal, how long a call to the Ukrainian Danube ports takes, and when the bar stops pilotage. Built for war risk underwriters, P&I clubs and chartering brokers.

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60vessels at the Sulina roads at the end of week 43

29 daysmedian wait at the roads, the same week

5 of 14Ukraine-bound vessels in the pilotage plan that week actually entered

28 daysmedian from canal entry to exit, four weeks to 25 Oct

Figures from the sample issue for week 43, 19–25 October 2026.

Who it is for

War risk underwriters

Time per call in two parts — the wait at the roads and the time from canal entry to exit — and how many vessels and how much cargo sit in one place at once.

P&I clubs, FD&D

Days without inbound pilotage, with the wind and waves at the bar on those days, and how throughput follows the number of pilots. The background to laytime and demurrage disputes.

Chartering brokers

The queue and wait at the roads, what share of planned vessels actually enter, and a three-day weather outlook for the bar — what to allow for in a fixture.

What's inside each issue

Vessels at the roads and in the inbound lists, with the change on the previous week
Median days at the roads and vessels waiting 14+ days
Vessels entering the canal, and how many of those in the pilotage plan actually entered, by destination country
Days without inbound pilotage and the weather at the bar on those days
The exit queue and the median days on it
Canal entry to exit, median and middle half, over four weeks
Where vessels went: share of canal entries by destination over four weeks
Cargo by broad type, inbound and outbound
Age profile of vessels entering
Six weeks of each figure with the trend, and a CSV of the series

Aggregates only, published after the week ends. The issue names no vessels and gives no positions, current counts or movement times for Ukrainian ports.

Sample issue — week 43, 2026

Sample issue, page 1: headline figures and six-week table

Sample issue, page 2: destinations, plan versus entry, weather, cargo

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