A total of 6.7 million t of agricultural products were exported from Ukraine in May, down 7% or 490,000 t compared with April. By types of cargo, grain exports averaged some 5.6 million t (down 7% or 410,000 t), vegetable oil transportation volume amounted to 660,000 t (down 3% or 20,000 t), and meal…… Read more »
In 2023, the USAID Economic Resilience Activity purchased and handed over 50 modern grain hoppers with the capacity of 70 tons each to NIBULON. Since August 2023, the company has transported almost 73,000 tons of Ukrainian grain using this rolling stock.
The port of Klaipeda’s overall transshipment volume dropped by 242,000 t to 3.3 million t in May compared with April due to a 294,000 t slump in the cargo turnover to 2.4 million t at the Klaipeda State Seaport.
Viterra Ukraine, a subsidiary of Glencore International AG, has acquired the Penkivsky elevator in Vinnytsia. Its capacity for simultaneous storage is 26,000 tons, and the elevator can receive 3,000 tons per day.
The cargo turnover of all operators of the Liepaja SEZ remained almost unchanged in May compared with April. Thus, the operators handled a total of 588,000 t of cargo of all groups in May (up insignificant 4,000 t over the month).
As part of the USAID Economic Resilience Activity, Cygnet Agrocompany received 15 new grain hoppers. The cars have already arrived and are being used by the company.
As part of the USAID Economic Resilience Activity, NIBULON has received 13 Polish-made MEGA LIGHT 3 grain trailers with a carrying capacity of 25.5 tons. Currently, the company’s fleet includes 131 trucks with a grain semitrailer, which provide an average transportation volume of 16 million ton-kilometers per month.
Prometheus Group has leased a terminal in the Egyptian port of Alexandria with two warehouses (a total storage capacity of 60,000 tons). As a result, the company now has direct access to the port’s facilities, which allows it to reduce logistics costs, simplify the export process and shorten the way to the final consignee.
PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company is increasing the transportation volume of agricultural products from the Middle Danube to the Romanian port of Constanta. For example, according to the company’s CEO, Dmytro Moskalenko, last week the shipping company began loading three barge caravans from Serbia.