Main types of activity: navigation-hydrographic support of general shipping; representation of the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine in the international maritime organizations on problems of navigation, hydrography, oceanography and nautical cartography; making of nautical charts on paper and electronic version, manuals for navigation and shipping; notices to marines.
Corporate system: State Hydrographic Institution has five branches in cities of Kerch, Mykolayiv, Odessa, Sevastopol and Kyiv.