Grain market. USA // Week 18
The US wheat export market has softened amid improving weather conditions for crops and high competition from other northern hemisphere supplying countries.
Grain market. EU countries // Week 18
Prices for EU grains have been sliding down despite healthy demand from major importers.
Grain market. Russia // Week 18
Quotes for Russian grains have been decreasing rapidly. Prices suffer pressure from the same factors, primarily the oversupply of agri products in the country.
Grain market. Ukraine // Week 18
Export quotes for Ukrainian grains have been mainly declining amid slow trade. The issue of the “grain corridor” operation remains open.
Moldova to join EU import restrictions on Ukrainian agri products
At the meeting with Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky in Chisinau on May 6, Moldova’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vladimir Bolea announced Moldova’s intention to join the EU’s decision to impose the temporary restrictive measures on imports of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower originating in Ukraine and to support the transit traffic.
Actual situation with transportation of agricultural products through western border crossings of Ukraine
As of May 8, as many as 278 wagons were standing at a Ukrainian 1520 mm track gauge station waiting for transferring through the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing point, including 92 wagons with transit cargo.
Indices of rolling stock rental rates in Ukraine // Week 18
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
IMTRON to use LKW WALTER to shift freight transport between Germany and Italy from road to rail
LKW WALTER, an Austrian private transport company, and IMTRON, a German subsidiary of the MediaMarktSaturn Group / CECONOMY AG, have signed an agreement to transport goods between Germany and Italy by rail.
Metinvest held tender for transportation of blast furnace coke from Poland
Metinvest-Shipping LLC held a tender for the purchase of freight forwarding services for transportation of goods in hatched gondola cars in May-June 2023.
European Parliament extends zero import duties on Ukrainian products
On May 9, the European Parliament voted to extend for another year the zero anti-dumping duties and safeguards for Ukrainian exports of fruits and vegetables (subject to the system of input prices), as well as agricultural products and processed products (subject to tariff quotas) to the European Union.