The Romanian government in cooperation with Moldovan authorities will build a pontoon bridge across the Prut border river to improve the transportation of cargo from Ukraine, mainly grain, according to the website of Polish publication Gospodarka Morska, citing Irinel Scriosteanu, state secretary of the Romanian Transport Ministry.
According to Romanian official, the new pontoon crossing will be built at the place where until 1944 there was a bridge between Bumbata village (Bumbata, Romania) and Leova city (Leova, Moldova), later destroyed by Soviet Red Army troops.
Scriosteanu said the pontoon bridge would be used for both passenger and freight traffic.
“In recent months, the Romanian and Moldovan governments have announced a number of logistics projects to improve the transportation of goods from Ukraine, especially grain. Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Romanian port of Constanta is important for the shipment of grain from this country through the Black Sea,” the Polish edition concluded.
As reported, Romania became the largest importer of Ukrainian grain crops in 2022 because of the Russian aggression, although in 2021 it was not even in the top 20 importers. Its share was 13.6% of the total value of Ukrainian supplies of this commodity group abroad. During the year, this country increased the volume of imports from Ukriane by 690 times compared to 2021 – up to $1.24 billion from $1.8 million.
Ukraine since the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (MY, July-June) and until February 27 has exported 31.78 million tons of grain crops, including 18.2 million tons of corn (57.2% of total supplies), 11.24 million tons of wheat (35.6%) and 2.05 million tons of barley (6.4%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Monday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this MY is by 26.9% lower than during the same period of the previous MY, when 43.52 million tons were shipped abroad on that date. Thus, on February 27, there was achieved the minimum for the season lag of export volumes from the indicators of the previous season. For comparison, the previous smallest gap from last year’s figures at the rate of “minus” 28.65% was recorded on February 13.
According to the Ministry, Ukraine has exported 18.2 million tons of corn (-5.8% compared to the same period last year), 11.24 million tons of wheat (1.61 times less), 2.05 million tons of barley (2.75 times less), 15.8 thousand tons of rye (10.2 times less) and 97.7 tons of flour (+43.7%) since the beginning of 2022/2023 MY and until February 27 this year.
It is specified that Ukraine exported 4.7 million tons of grain since early February, including 2.94 million tons of corn, 1.51 million tons of wheat, 229 tons of barley, 15,300 tons of flour and 3 tons of rye.
As it follows from the Ministry data, during the week of February 20-27, an average of 192.9 thousand tons of grain was supplied to foreign markets per day, while during the preceding period of February 13-20 – 165.7 thousand tons/day, February 3-13 – 170.7 thousand tons/day, January 27 – February 3 – 209.4 thousand tons/day, January 20-27 – 121.1 thousand tons/day, January 9-20 – 140 thousand tons/day and January 2-9 – 121.7 thousand tons/day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period February 20-27 has increased by 16.4% compared to the previous period February 13-20.
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.
During the last week, the daily volume of grain export by rail decreased by 2-3 thousand tons per day on average – down to 108 thousand tons per day because of artificial delays in the registration of vessels by Russian representatives in inspection groups under the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul and reducing the effectiveness of the “grain corridor”, said Valery Tkachev, Deputy Director of the department of commercial work UZ at a meeting with market participants on Thursday.
“If we compare the current daily average with a week ago, we can state a slight decrease in the average daily volume of grain transportation in the export direction: today we carry an average of 108 thousand tons per day, while a week ago – 110 thousand tons, mainly due to lower traffic volumes to sea ports,” – said Tkachev.
At the same time, he said, the volume of grain transportation in the direction of overland railroad crossings has increased on average by 1 thousand tons per day – up to almost 34 thousand tons per day.
In February (February 22) UZ already transported 2.37 million tons of grain for export.
Earlier Yuri Vaskov, deputy minister of reconstruction, said on Aljazeera English live broadcast that since October the efficiency of the “grain corridor” does not exceed 40% of the available export capacities.
On February 15, Ukraine issued a statement calling on the international community, particularly the United Nations and Turkey, as guarantors of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, to demand that Russia immediately stop its artificial delays and unblock commercial shipping to Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
The Ukrainian side notes that Russian representatives in the inspection teams under the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul have been systematically delaying for several months in a row the inspection of vessels transiting the Bosporus Strait to/from Ukrainian ports. Every day less than half of the planned 10 inspections usually take place. As a result, in the last three months alone the world was short 10 million tons of Ukrainian food, and the queue of ships waiting for inspection in the Bosporus exceeded 140 units.
Representatives of Ukraine noted that at the same time, Russia enjoys the opportunity of unimpeded commercial shipping from Russian Black Sea ports: the volume of traffic through Russian seaports in the Azov-Black Sea basin in 2022 was more than 250 million tons, which exceeded the figures in 2021.
Transportation of grains and oilseeds from Ukraine to Poland by rail in 2022 increased by 27 times compared to 2021, Rafal Weber, state secretary of Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, said at the International Conference on Transport Development at European level without specifying the absolute figure.
At the same time, Mustafa Nayem, head of Ukraine’s State Agency for Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Development, who attended the conference, noted that new logistics routes may have emerged over that period.
“The activity of Central European countries was decisive in the first weeks and months of the war, so that new logistic routes could have appeared,” his words were quoted by the press service of the Polish ministry on the website of the department.
Nayem stressed that the situation with the growth of traffic requires mobilization from the Polish side and further integration of transport systems of Ukraine and the EU.
Further intensification of trade flows puts Poland before the need to increase the transshipment capacity of port infrastructure, the capacity of which until recently has been a deterrent to the growth of grain shipments from Ukraine, the conference participants noted.
“Ports have to be too big to handle growing cargo flows. The Port of Gdansk is currently reaching its maximum transshipment capacity. We have to anticipate what will happen and prepare more berths,” Lukasz Greinke, director of the Port of Gdańsk, said at the conference.
Last year Poland’s largest seaports, Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin-Swinoujscie, handled a total of more than 133 million tons of cargo, a record, said Grzegorz Witkowski, deputy minister of infrastructure of the Republic of Poland.
He stressed that the Polish government will continue to implement ambitious projects in Polish ports, so that they can meet the challenges associated with the inclusion of the transport corridor “Baltic Sea – Black Sea – Aegean Sea” in the main Trans-European transport network TEN-T.
Ukraine from the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) to February 13, exported 29.16 million tons of cereals, including 16.72 million tons of corn (57.3% of total supplies), 10.39 million tons of wheat (35.6%) and 1.94 million tons of barley (6.7%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Monday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this year is by 28.65% lower than during the same period of the previous year, when 40.81 million tons were shipped abroad. At that, as of February 13, the highest average daily export rate for the current MY was achieved, while the previous lowest lag from the last year’s figure was reached on January 9 – “minus” 29.61%.
According to the Ministry, Ukraine exported 16.72 million tons of corn (-3.7% compared to the same period last year), 10.39 million tons of wheat (1.69 times less), 1.94 million tons of barley (2.84 times less), 13.4 thousand tons of rye (11.8 times less) and 89.5 thousand tons of flour (+38.1%) from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to February 13 this year.
It is specified that Ukraine exported 2.19 million tons of grain since early February, including 1.4 million tons of corn, 653 thousand tons of wheat, 126 thousand tons of barley, 7,100 tons of flour and 1 thousand tons of rye.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period of February 3-13, an average of 170.7 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period of January 27 – February 3 – 209.4 thousand tons of cereals per day, January 20-27 – 121.1 thousand tons per day, January 9-20 – 140 thousand tons per day, and January 2-9 – 121.7 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period of 3-13 February decreased by 18.5% compared to the previous period January 27-February 3.
As reported, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grain and leguminous crops in 2021/2022 MY, 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 sea ports. 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.
Ukraine from the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) until February 3, exported 27.46 million tons of cereals, including 15.68 million tons of corn (57.1% of total supplies), 9.84 million tons of wheat (35.8%) and 1.83 million tons of barley (6.7%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this MY is 29.8% lower than the same period of the previous MY, when 39.12 million tons were delivered abroad. At that, the highest average daily rate in this MY with the least lagging behind last year’s figure was reached on January 9 (“minus” 29.61%).
According to the Ministry, Ukraine exported 15.68 million tons of corn (-2.1% compared to the same period last year), 9.84 million tons of wheat (1.75 times less), 1.83 million tons of barley (3 times less), 12.8 thousand tons of rye (12.3 times less) and 85 thousand tons of flour (+33%) from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to February 3 this year.
It is specified that Ukraine exported 483 tons of grain since early February, including 362 tons of corn, 107 tons of wheat, 9 thousand tons of barley and 1.9 tons of flour.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period from January 27 to February 3, 209.4 thousand tons of grain has been supplied to foreign markets on average per day, whereas during the preceding period from January 20-27 – 121.1 thousand tons / day (an increase of 1.73 times), on January 9-20 – 140 thousand tons / day, on January 2-9 – 121.7 thousand tons / day, and on December 21 – January 2 – 196.4 thousand tons / day on average.
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.
