On the Russian grain market, prices have shown an upturn thanks to limited offer and large tenders from frequent buyers from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Algeria. At the same time, Egypt – a key importer of Russian wheat – is apparently not planning any purchases in the near future.
Export quotes for Kazakh wheat hold steady, with no trade upturn seen so far. As expected, wheat exports are noticeably lower this season.
Since August, when NIBULON received its first grain carriers as part of the USAID Economic Support for Ukrainian project, it has already transported almost 30,000 tonnes of grain.
On December 14, a total of 3,200 wagons were moving to the Izov station including 1,300 wagons with cakes, 561 wagons with vegetable oil, and 626 containers. Meanwhile, as many as 878 wagons were on their way to the Mostyska-2 station on that date including 489 containers, 97 wagons with metals and 90 wagons…… Read more »
About 185 wagons were transferred daily through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing as of December 19 (down 5 wagons in two weeks). By destinations, approximately 146 wagons with export cargo (up 10 units) and 39 wagons with imported goods (down 24 units) were handled daily in the period under review.
Almost 9,400 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on December 13 (down 1,559 wagons compared with November 29). In particular, as many as 1,434 wagons were standing loaded with grain on December 13 (down 206 units compared with November 29), while 944 wagons were loaded with vegetable oil…… Read more »
Alebor Group plans to increase the capacity of Vadul Siret terminal, which operates as a dry port on the border with Romania, if there are enough volumes for transshipment. Currently, the complex can handle up to 70,000 tonnes of cargo per month
As many as 8,400 wagons loaded with various goods were awaiting transferring through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on December 14 compared with almost 9,800 wagons in late November.
More than 7,100 wagons were standing loaded with grain awaiting unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on December 14. With about 987 wagons accepted at the stations a day, it may take up to 7 days to serve all these wagons.
According to data covering the period from December 1 to December 13, a total of 1.06 million tonnes of grain were exported from Ukraine by railways (compared with 2.43 million t in November), of which about 807,000 t arrived at Ukrainian ports