Export changes in % to previous period in 2021-2022
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Ukraine since the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) and until January 20, 2012 exported 25.14 million tons of cereals, including 14.22 million tons of corn (56.6% of total shipments), 9.1 million tons of wheat (36.1%) and 1.73 million tons of barley (6.8%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of the current MY is 30.34% lower than the same period of the previous MY, when from July 1, 2021 to January 20, 2022, 36.08 million tons were delivered abroad. In this case, the previous maximum rate of exports was achieved on January 9, 2023, when the lag from last year’s values was the lowest for the entire MY 29.61%.
According to the Ministry, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to January 20 this year, Ukraine exported 9.1 million tons of wheat (1.82 times less compared to the same period last year), 1.73 million tons of barley (3.11 times less) and 12.5 thousand tons of rye (12 times less). At the same time, exports of corn exceeded last year’s volume: 14.22 million tons were exported, which is 3.6% more than it was in 2021/2022 MY on the same date, while 76.5 thousand tons of flour (+23.1%).
It is specified that since the beginning of January, Ukraine exported 2.39 million tons of grain, including 1.59 million tons of corn, 671 thousand tons of wheat, 108 thousand tons of barley and 7.5 thousand tons of flour.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period of January 9-20, an average of 140 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to the foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period of January 2-9, an average of 121.7 thousand tons per day were supplied to the foreign markets, during December 21 – January 2, an average of 196.4 thousand tons per day, during December 14-21 – 134.3 thousand tons per day and during December 2-14 – 148.6 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period January 9-20 has increased by 15% compared to the previous period January 2-9.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021/2022 MY exported 48.51 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, which is 8.4% higher than in the previous MY, despite the full-scale invasion of Russia and the difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports. 18.74 million tons of wheat (12.6% more than in 2020/2021MY), 23.54 million tons of corn (+1.9%), 5.75 million tons of barley (+35.9%), 70.9 thousand tons of flour (-44.1%) were supplied to foreign markets.
Ukraine in 2020/2021 MY exported 44.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops: 16.64 million tons of wheat, 23.08 million tons of corn, 4.23 million tons of barley, 126.9 thousand tons of flour and 18.4 thousand tons of rye.
In 2019/2020, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.
Export of goods in Jan-Oct 2022 to most important positions and in relation to same period of 2021
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Ukraine in 2022 reduced the export of coke and semi-coke in volume terms by 98% compared to the previous year – up to 3.856 thousand tons, in December export was not carried out.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS), exports of coke and semi-coke in monetary terms fell by 97.6% to $1.011 million over the period.
The main export was carried out in Hungary (42.63% of supplies in monetary terms), Georgia (37.69%) and Turkey (17.41%).
Ukraine imported 359.192 thousand tons of coke and semi-coke in 2022, down 54.5% compared to 2021. In monetary terms, imports decreased by 50.3% to $174.499 million.
Imports came mainly from Russia (43.43% of supplies in monetary terms, before the war), Poland (30.07%) and the Czech Republic (13.15%).
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 increased the export of coke and semi-coke in volume terms by 3.3 times compared to 2020 – up to 194.535 thousand tons. In monetary terms, export of coke and semi-coke during this period rose in 4.8 times – up to $ 41.838 million. The main export was carried out in Kazakhstan (29.03% in monetary terms), Turkey (20.06%) and Algeria (15.77%).
Ukraine imported 789.903 thousand tons of coke and semi-coke in 2021, which is 2.1 times more than in 2020. In monetary terms, imports increased 4.3 times – up to $351.238 million. Imports were carried out mainly from Russia (65.48% of supplies in monetary terms), the Czech Republic (20%) and Poland (8.45%).
As a result of the war, a number of mines and coke and chemical plants were located in territories temporarily outside of Ukraine’s control.
KMZ Industries (Karlovskiy Machine Building Plant, KMZ, Poltava region) at the end of 2022 has manufactured and delivered the equipment necessary for the completion of construction of the “dry” port of Alebor Group located on the territory of Hlybotskiy community (Chernivtsi region) near the border with Romania.
According to the Facebook page of the engineering company, KMZ is ordering construction of the first stage of the export grain terminal with a capacity of 30 000 tons and loading capacity of 300 tons per hour.
Altogether Alebor Group is planning several stages of terminal construction for 2023-2024. In the long term, the “Vadul-Siret Terminal” project will transship Ukrainian agricultural products into narrow gauge railroad wagons for subsequent shipment to the Romanian port of Constanta, thus giving exporters an alternative to Ukrainian sea ports.
As reported, the head of Hlybock community Gregory Vanzuryak in August 2022, wrote that the facility will be equipped with silos up to 200 thousand tons and a capacity of handling up to 3 million tons / year.
He said the first phase of the $20 million project, which will be completed in January 2023, will store up to 60,000 tons of crops and transship up to 1.2 million tons of grain annually to Romania.
Vanzuryak noted that the total construction cost of the facility will be $40 million.
Alebor Group in July-2022 announced the purchase of land for the construction of a terminal for transshipment of crops from the wide Ukrainian railroad track to the narrow European railroad track, as well as an elevator with a total capacity of 60 thousand hectares.
Alebor Group was founded in 2014. Its founder is entrepreneur Alexey Kustov.
In addition to Voronivtsi KPP, the group includes Krystyniv KPP (Cherkasy region) and KPP Chestne (Odessa region), as well as trucking companies Boleko (Cherkasy region), Autoera (Odessa region) and a trading division. The total fleet of the companies amounts to 210 grain carriers.
Before the full-scale Russian invasion into Ukraine, the group of companies had the capacity to export 1.2 million tons of grains and oilseeds per year. The total capacity of the three elevators is 315 thousand tons of simultaneous storage.
KMZ Industries produces flat-bottom and cone-bottom silos, flour storage silos, Brice-Baker mine dryers (British design) and chipboards (Ukrainian design), transport equipment (elevator, chain, belt and screw conveyors), separators for grain cleaning, installs and automates elevator equipment and technological processes in grain storages.
In 2020 the plant increased revenue by 35% to 395.26 million hryvnias and made 5.05 million hryvnias of net profit against a loss of 25.37 million hryvnias. In 2021, it planned to increase production by 30-50%.
As of the fourth quarter of 2021, Dragon Capital Investments Limited (Cyprus), whose ultimate beneficiary is Tomas Fiala, owns 80% of KMZ JSC shares, while Variant Agro Bud LLC holds 20%.
Ghana intends to implement new logistics projects to increase and make more predictable the exports of agricultural products from Ukraine, a similar intention previously announced by Nigeria and Senegal.
According to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on Friday, the deepening of cooperation in agriculture and trade relations was discussed by Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy Nikolay Solsky and Ghanaian Minister of Food and Agriculture Owusa Afriy Akoto.
It is specified that the parties considered the issue of creation of a joint project – a logistics hub for food storage, which will allow to store high-quality grain, promote the predictability of sales and stabilization of world food prices.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy recalled that the Republic of Ghana was the third country visited by a delegation of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy during its official visit to African countries, each of which expressed its desire to create a logistics hub for the export of Ukrainian grain.
