ÖBB Rail Cargo Group is offering new routes within the Middle Corridor connecting Central Europe and Asia. Sixteen new intermodal connections with competitive transit times of around 30 days will provide an alternative to sea freight.
PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company is strengthening its cooperation with the world’s largest grain traders; agricultural products will be transported from the Danube ports of European countries to Constanta.
Dubai Port World, one of the world’s largest port operators, has built a new 184-meter long vertical berth in the Serbian port of Novi Sad. The terminal’s transshipment capacity should increase by 500,000 TEU.
Freight forwarding company and multimodal container operator Levada Cargo (Lemtrans) is investing in a network of terminals across Ukraine.
As many as 179 wagons were transferred daily through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing in September 1-19 (down 8 wagon compared with September 1-12).
The European Commission does not extend the temporary restriction on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products to Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria, provided that Ukraine complies with measures that will avoid a significant increase in grain imports.
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The picture of the small-tonnage shipping market has been somewhat paradoxical for several weeks in a row. On the one hand, transportation volumes ex Danube ports continue to grow, becoming the main driver of the whole Black Sea & Mediterranean markets.
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Recently, TAS Agro has exported 1,500 t of rapeseed oil for the first time to consumers in China. In general, the company has been processing oilseeds (rapeseed, sunflower, soybeans) on a tolling basis at its partners’ plants for the second year in a row.