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June 17, 2022
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- Ukrainian cereals could be exported through the
Moldova
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- Possible hub the international free port of Giurgiulesti.
The need is to transport at least four million
of tons per month
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 The closure of its ports due to the ongoing war, both
because the ports of call have fallen into the hands of the troops
Russians both because they can not operate for positioning in
sea of mines essential to avoid a possible attack
on the part of the Moscow Navy, is forcing Ukraine to search
frantically alternatives especially to export their own
cereals, given that the nation is one of the main granaries
of Europe and primary supplier of wheat to others
world markets and feeds up to 400 million people worldwide.
According to the calculations of Ukraine, you need to find the way
to export at least four million tonnes of cereals to
month.-
- To this end, yesterday at the headquarters of the Ukrainian League of
Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) was coordinated
an in-person and online meeting of the Business Council
Ukrainian-Moldovan focused on the possibility of using the
transport system of the Republic of Moldova to solve the
Logistical problems of Ukraine in the course of the conflict and, in
particular, on the solutions to transfer on this system the
volumes of cargo that cannot be exported through the
Ukrainian ports increasing the transit of Ukrainian goods through
Moldova and from there to Romanian ports or to the EU.
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- During the meeting it was specified that the
need is to export over 20 million
tons of cereals from the previous harvest you are on
adding more than 30 million tons of the new
harvest. Representatives of Ukrport, the association of ports
Ukrainians, noted that currently the capacity of silos
Moldovans are only exploited for 30% and this could
partly solve the problem of storage of Ukrainian grain.
"Based on the forecasts -- said the president
of the ULIE, Anatoliy Kyrylovych, we may have a deficiency of
warehouses and storage capacity for at least 10-15
million tons of cereals. The new harvest is beginning and
meanwhile 23 million tonnes are blocked in ports and
silos due to the large-scale invasion of Russia and the
their cynical policy of destruction of civilian structures, of
transport and other infrastructure. So far - has made known
Kyrylovych - the largest volume of agricultural products exported with
all modes of transport was 1.7 million
of tonnes in May'.
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- The need to increase
exports by rail and in this regard a manager
of the Ukrainian railway group Ukrzaliznytsia announced that it is
the first rail transport was successfully carried out
through Moldova without the need to change the
locomotive, thus accelerating the transport phases. The company
Ukrainian railway took over in the first five months of this year
a +45% increase in rail transit of Ukrainian goods
through Moldova which amounted to 826 thousand tons
and, in particular, the flow of cereals grew by 32
times compared to the same period in 2021.
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- More difficult, however, to increase the transit of goods
Ukrainians on the roads of Moldovan territory, also in consideration
of the queues that involve waiting for several days at the border between
Moldova and Romania, queues that however are gradually
shrinking.
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- With regard to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports, the
Ukrport representatives explained that currently the ports
Ukrainian rivers on the Danube have become the main gateways to
exports from Ukraine, but they specified that, despite the
traffic in these river ports has increased fourfold,
this does not solve the problem of exports, in particular
that of cereals given the need to
transport at least four tonnes each month. To this end, the
Ukrport representatives called on Moldova to consider
the possibility of exporting Ukrainian wheat through the port
international franc of Giurgiulesti which, despite being a stopover
river, is the only port of Moldova reachable from the
seagoing ships.
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