With ports shut down at the beginning of the war and the limited infrastructure of neighboring Western countries, the agricultural trading company Eridon decided to create its own means of exporting grain through land border crossings.
A total of 27.9 million tonnes of grain and legumes were exported from Ukraine since the beginning of the current marketing year started July 1 and up to January 31, which is 17% below the result of the same period of MY 2022-2023. In particular, exports included 12.3 million t of corn (down 20%…… Read more »
The Freeport of Riga processed 1.7 million t of cargo in January 2024 (down 46,000 t compared with December 2023).
The overall cargo turnover remained almost unchanged at the Liepaja SEZ in January 2024. Port operators handled 693,000 t of various cargoes, down 21,000 t below December 2023.
Agrosem plans to complete construction and commission a new grain elevator with a capacity of 22,000 tons at its own MOST Logistic Terminal on the border with Poland by December 2024. The terminal is expected to have an annual transshipment capacity of 400,000 tons.
Transshipment increased by 666,000 t to 4.1 million t in the port of Klaipeda in January 2024 owing to higher performance of both Klaipeda State Seaport (up 392,000 t to 3.1 million t) and the Butinge terminal (up 274,000 t to 966,000 t).
Container Terminal Mostyska (the company “Mostyska Dry Port”) handled more than 72,400 TEU in 2023, with Asian countries (via European ports), Poland, Italy and Germany being the main destinations.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has simplified the conditions for exporting sunflower seeds to Bulgaria by introducing an automatic licensing regime instead of a non-automatic one. The relevant decision was made at a government meeting on February 2, 2024.
Last year, the Lithuanian company LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) transported a total of 27.2 million t of cargo (up 2.5 million t compared with the year before). The list of most actively carried cargoes includes oil and oil products (9.4 million t), construction cargoes (5.5 million t), and agricultural products (4.7 million t).
In 2023, the Moldovan port of Giurgiulesti handled 2.2 million t of cargo (up 18.64% year-on-year). Container handling performance reached a historic high of 8,646 TEU.