Ukraine has managed to boost its Black Sea grain exports to a level not seen since before Russia’s invasion, but the shipping crisis in the Red Sea poses a new challenge to the nation’s crucial agricultural trade. Kyiv’s success in replacing a UN-backed Black Sea export deal with its own shipping scheme has brought relief
Ukraine’s grain export success tested by Red Sea crisis
Ukraine Black Sea route slowed by Red Sea turmoil, hampering trade with Asia
Red Sea crisis cutting farm exports from Ukraine, minister says
Wheat shipments via Suez plunge amid Red Sea attacks: WTO
The situation in the Red Sea has led to a slowdown in Ukrainian agricultural exports in January, agriculture minister Mykola Solsky said on Thursday.
Ukraine’s Dec Black Sea food exports top U.N.-brokered deal at its peak
Kyiv believes it has managed to dislodge Russian forces from the western part of the Black Sea
Ukraine exported 4.8 million metric tons of food via its Black Sea corridor in December, surpassing the maximum monthly volume exported under a previous U.N.-brokered grain deal, brokers said on Wednesday.
Insurers, Ukraine launch war-risk ship insurance
Program announced in effort to cut grain costs
Reuters – Insurance broker Marsh, Lloyd’s of London insurers and Ukrainian state banks have launched a program to cut the cost of claims for damage to ships and crew transporting grain through the Black Sea corridor, Marsh said Nov. 15. Kyiv launched a “humanitarian corridor” in August for ships bound for Africa and Asia to
Kyiv acts on ‘compromise’ plan after filing WTO complaint over food ban
Three EU countries have restricted Ukraine grain imports
Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine appealed to three neighbouring countries in the European Union on Tuesday to embark on “constructive dialogue” to end a dispute over agricultural trade, and approved what it called a “compromise scenario.” Poland, Slovakia and Hungary announced restrictions on imports from Ukraine on Friday after the European Commission decided not to
Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port
Some 13,000 tonnes of grain destroyed says Ukrainian deputy prime minister
Reuters – Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the port’s export capacity had been reduced by 15% and that
Russia strikes Ukraine’s Danube port, sending global grain prices higher
Port hit on Danube opposite NATO-member Romania; Kyiv says aim is to intimidate shippers considering return
Kyiv | Reuters – Russia attacked Ukraine’s main inland port across the Danube River from Romania on Wednesday, sending global food prices higher as it ramps up its use of force to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain. The attacks destroyed buildings in the port of Izmail and halted ships in their tracks as they prepared
Ukraine ‘99.9 per cent’ certain Russia will quit Black Sea deal next month
Russia wants demands met on ammonia shipments
Kyiv | Reuters — Russia is 99.9 per cent certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Moscow and
Ukraine says Russia again blocking Black Sea grain export deal
Russia seeks ammonia transit via Pivdennyi
Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s ministry of renovation and infrastructure said on Thursday the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain export deal had been halted again because Russia had blocked registration of ships to all Ukrainian ports. A U.N. spokesman said Russia had informed officials overseeing the initiative that Moscow would limit registrations to the port of
Russia preventing Black Sea grain deal port from operating, Ukraine says
Black Sea Grain Initiative was extended last week
Kyiv | Reuters — The Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi has halted operations because Russia is not allowing ships to enter it, in effect cutting it out of a deal allowing safe Black Sea grain exports, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday. The Black Sea Grain Initiative signed by Russia and Ukraine last July, and extended
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