The world's largest container shipping company has taken a majority stake in a Ukrainian port near Odesa, marking a rare high-profile foreign investment into the country as Russia's full-scale invasion drags into its fifth year. The Swiss-headquartered Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) acquired a stake in the TIS container terminal in Ukraine's Pivdennyi (Southern) Port, one person with close knowledge of the deal confirmed to the Kyiv Independent, who was granted anonymity to discuss closed talks.Commanding roughly a fifth of the world's global container traffic, MSC's expansion into Ukraine comes even as Russia ramps up missile and drone strikes on civilian infrastructure across the country, as Moscow stalls on the battlefield.Ukraine's Black Sea ports are frequent targets — and the Pivdenny Port is fewer than 50 kilometers away from the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine."The deal is a good sign, demonstrating interest in the Ukrainian market, which is one of the most promising in the Black Sea region," Serhiy Vovk, director of the Center for Transportation Strategies, told the Kyiv Independent. The terminal can handle coal, containers, ore, grain, and fertilizers, according to TIS, and is Ukraine's busiest port in terms of cargo transhipment.