Sunflower oil market. Ukraine // Week 14
Prices for sunflower oil have decreased in Ukrainian ports due to weak consumer demand.
Grain and vegetable oil exports from some Ukrainian ports // Week 15
Grain exports from Great Odesa ports, thousand tonnes*
Indices of rolling stock rental rates in Ukraine // Week 14
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
New floating terminal at Finland’s Inkoo port receives first LNG from USA
In early April, the first LNG tanker (Vivit Americas – 299 m long, 46 m wide and with a capacity of 174,060 cu m of LNG) arrived at the Finnish port of Inkoo, located in the Gulf of Finland, with a cargo delivered by Vitol from the US plant Venture Global Calcasieu Pass (Louisiana).
Ban on coal concentrate transportation to Slovakia for U.S. Steel Kosice
Starting from April 11 and until the decision is revoked, the supplier Svyato-Varvarinska Enrichment Plant LLC will be banned from transporting coal concentrate (UTSNG 161043) via the Uzhhorod-Exp border crossing to the Haniska pri Kosiciach station in Slovakia for the consignee U.S. Steel Kosice.
Siemens to increase capacity of locomotive plant in Munich
Siemens Mobility is planning to expand the area of its locomotive plant in Munich (located in the Allgäu district) from 50,000 square meters to 80,000 square meters.
Ukrzaliznytsia agrees on wagon transfer plan at land border crossings in April
It its plans related to the Polish land border crossings, Ukrzaliznytsia confirmed the number of wagons submitted by foreign carriers for March.
Handling at Ukraine-Poland border crossings*
Izov-Hrubieszów border crossing served a total of 17,229 wagons in March with the average daily rate of 556 wagons (up 70 units per day compared to February), including 6,321 wagons with ore, 1,829 wagons with grain, 1,766 wagons with metallurgical cargo, etc.
Port of Klaipeda cargo turnover in March
The stevedoring companies operating in the Port of Klaipeda stepped up handling of various types of cargoes by 10% month-on-month to 3.4 million t in March 2023, exceeding the February handling volume by 309,000 t.
Rolling stock price indices in Ukraine // Week 13
Gondola car price index, €/unit*