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Despite the ongoing upturn in grain export prices, the offer of small grain cargo lots for shipments from Ukraine has even decreased this week. “We see further drop in volumes from the Danube amid an increase in logistic costs, while switching to shipments from Ukrainian deep-sea ports, traders prefer to ship 15-30,000 t lots,” a…… Read more »

            Not even a shred of positive changes can be seen on the small-tonnage shipping market in early February. Demand for Ukrainian, Russian and European grain is gradually increasing in the Mediterranean countries, but contracts are still signed with great difficulties.

            Despite timid signs of improvement on the grain export market, the small-tonnage freight segment remains extremely soft in the Black and Mediterranean Seas , with a minimum of firm grain offers.