Posted on 06/17/2022 5:11:17 AM PDT by blam
Photograph: Grain falls from a combine harvester into a truck during a wheat harvest in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Photo credit: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg
Ukrainian grain shippers have carved out a fresh export route — via the Baltic Sea — to send their crops abroad.
The country has been hunting for alternative paths for its crops as the war with Russia cuts off vital shipments from ports dotting the Black Sea, stoking global food prices and raising worries over hunger. Producers have resorted to sales by land instead, ferrying grain by railway, road and river to European Union neighbors.
An initial Ukrainian corn cargo sent via Romania to Spain — a major buyer — was recorded in April, and Spain now has received its first cargo from Poland, according to Ramon Castro, a spokesman for Puerto A Coruña. The vessel Alppila arrived there Monday carrying 18,000 tons of corn that were hauled by trucks from Ukraine, he said.
Satellite Images Reveal Extensive Damage at Major Ukraine Crop Port
The new shipping route may help ease Ukraine’s massive grain backlog and buoy feed supplies for EU livestock farmers, who face surging costs. Still, Ukraine’s sales remain well short of their normal pace, and the country is expected to run out of room to store coming harvests unless temporary facilities are built.
Money finds a way.
You mean to say that farmers sitting on multi-millions of dollars in grain have found a new way to ship it after Russia closed their ports? What a surprise! I guess only Liberals and journalists are too dumb to figure that out.
You are right. Articles like this are so tiresome...people who read outside of the MSM and those who repeat the MSM narrative know that Turkey and Russia combined have offered Ukraine shipment corridors through the Black Sea (so far, declined by Ukraine). There is no Russian blockade of grain from Odessa. Ukraine can’t ship from there because Ukraine mined the waters around the harbor. Ukraine ships grain from Romania unmolested; Belarus has offered rail transit (Ukraine declined); Danube transport is open, etc. People who follow this story in detail know that the Russians have no interest in blocking grain because Russia is building a coalition with the Global South and does not want to contribute to food supply disruptions to that area. A grain blockade is not in Russia’s self interest.
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