On March 22, Reni Terminal Development LLC (whose ultimate beneficiary is Andriy Verevsky, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kernel) received a permit to build a multimodal terminal in the city of Reni.
The Freeport of Riga stepped up the total cargo turnover by 27,000 t to 1.8 million t in February 2023 compared with January 2023.
A total of 11,925 wagons were transferred through the Izov-Hrubieszów border crossing in the period from March 1 till March 22, with about 534 wagons served there per day (up 56 units per day compared with February)
Ukraine exported more than 1.76 million tonnes of grain by railway during the period from March 1 to March 22.
Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing served about 191 wagons per day in the period from March 1 till March 21 (two trains on a 1520 mm gauge track and two trains on a 1435 mm gauge track).
Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), an American agro-industrial corporation, has resumed operations at its oilseed processing plant in the port of Chornomorsk. The company was forced to shut down in February last year.
Kernel Agro Holding has signed a long-term contract with Polish companies to manufacture 2,000 railway containers with a range of transportation services.
On March 18, a decision was made to extend the Initiative on the Safe Transportation of Grain and Foodstuffs from Ukrainian ports for another 120 days. Although Russia’s representatives insisted on a period of 60 days.
Ukraine exported a total of 1.24 million tonnes of grain by railway in the period from March 1 till March 15, of which some 416,000 t were carried through the western border crossings, while 822,000 t were shipped from sea ports.
Sunolta Group, a grain trading company, has acquired grain transshipment facilities of the Olympex Coupe International terminal (owned by GNT Group) in the Odesa Commercial Sea Port. The company announced the deal in February 2023.