Ukrainian grain export prices have been mostly falling this week. Traders are trying to attract importers’ attention to speed up sales. Due to increased bombing of the Danube port infrastructure, grain storage in local warehouses is becoming high risk, so traders are trying to switch to direct transshipment.
Export prices for Kazakh wheat hold steady, but traders expect quotes for grade 3 wheat to rise to $260/t DAP Saryagash soon amid seasonal increase in demand.
Quotes for EU wheat have been declining amid high competition with Russian suppliers. The information that Egypt contracted almost 500,000 t of Russian wheat under a private agreement rather than in a tender put pressure on prices.
Up to 700 wagons were reportedly heading to the Batiovo – Epereshke land border crossing point on September 11, of which 153 wagons were loaded with grain. Meanwhile, up to 80 wagons were moving to Chop – Zahony border crossing in that date.
Up to 500 wagons with grain were waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports as of September 6. Taking into account that approximately 168 wagons per day are accepted at the stations
As many as 187 wagons were transferred daily through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing as of September 12 (up 86 wagon compared with the previous week).
Stevedores of the Riga Freeport processed 1.3 million tonnes of various types of cargo in August (down 92,000 t compared with July).
There were about 9,000 wagons with various goods waiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of September 6 compared with 8,800 wagons in late August.
A total of 193,000 tonnes of grain were exported from Ukraine by railways during the period started September 1 and ended September 6 compared with 876,000 t during the entire August. Almost 160,000 t of grain were exported through the western land border crossing points in September 1-6
The Liepaja SEZ increased the cargo turnover by 10% month-on-month or by 45,000 t to 504,000 t in August.