Due to heavy rainfall, the water level has gradually risen in the upper and then in the middle section of the Danube river. At present, water levels allow working throughout the Danube, and the fleet is being loaded at full draft of 2.5-2.7 meters.
According to Kateryna Kononenko, manager of Avalon shipping, there were less than 50 vessels in the Sulina and Bystre Canals as of November 7. However, the number of ships waiting to enter Romanian ports has recently increased; their idle time at the roadstead reaches five days.
Spain’s Ministry of Transport (MITMA) has allocated €36.2 million to upgrade sidings at seven stations between Zaragoza and Tarragona to accommodate 750 m long freight trains. This initiative should increase the capacity for international rail freight transportation along the Madrid-Barcelona route
Approximately 5,700 wagons with grain were found waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on November 2.
The first anchorage for the transshipment of Ukrainian agricultural products at roadstead should start operating in the Romanian port of Constanta in November. This was announced by the President of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) Mykola Gorbachev.
A total of 12,900 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on October 25, up 119 wagons compared with September 30. In particular, as many as 2,338 wagons were standing loaded with grain on October 25 (down 892 units compared with September 30)
About 11,600 wagons with various goods were found waiting for a transfer through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on October 25 compared with nearly 11,100 wagons in late September.
On October 5, the Rail Cargo Group, a part of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), delivered 25-meter rails to Ukraine for the first time for Voestalpine Rail Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Voestalpine Railway Systems.
As of November 1, there were about 50 vessels in the Sulina and Bystre Canals, including 40 vessels in Izmail (five more are due to leave on November 1) and five in Reni.
Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company has modernized grain transshipment and is preparing a project for another logistics complex. The company announced this on its Facebook page.