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In March, Ukrzaliznytsia shipped 15% less grain than in previous months

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In March, Ukrzaliznytsia shipped 15% less grain than in previous months

In March, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) transported less grain cargo than in January-February due to the slowdown in the grain corridor and tighter control at the Polish border.

This was announced by Valeriy Tkachev, deputy director of UZ's commercial department, at a meeting with market participants, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

"The average daily volume of grain loaded by UZ in March was 85,000 tonnes. This figure remains low. In January and early February, we loaded more than 100,000 tonnes per day," he said.

According to Mr. Tkachev, market participants have been in a state of uncertainty for almost two weeks as to whether the grain corridor will continue to operate.

According to operational data, 1.82 million tonnes of grain were shipped by rail in 22 days of March. Of this volume, 1.76 million tonnes were exported: 1.23 million tonnes were transferred to ports, and 535.3 thousand tonnes – to western land railways.

Grain accounted for 22.5% of the structure of cargo shipments in March.

"The ratio remains the same: for every tonne of grain shipped to the western border crossings, there are approximately 2.5 tonnes of grain shipped to ports," Mr. Tkachev said, noting that the dynamics remained low.

According to him, one million tonnes of grain in the direction of the western border crossings and 2 million tonnes in the direction of ports can be considered good indicators. Such figures were achieved in previous months.

"Unfortunately, today it is only 1.76 million tonnes, and we are lagging behind both at land crossings and ports. But this is not a issue for UZ – we have all the necessary resources to increase the flows," stated Mr. Tkachev.

He expressed hope that as the grain corridor continues to operate, grain shipments will pick up. The situation on the Polish border is also expected to improve.

Background. The Ministry of Infrastructure recently announced plans to expand the Black Sea Grain Initiative to include Mykolaiv port. Despite the war, 700 vessels left Ukrainian ports, including those carrying Ukrainian grain. However, exports by sea were hampered, in particular by russia's blocking of the process.

In addition to external factors, this process was also affected by internal factors, such as queues in Ukrainian ports. Given that Ukraine is moving towards digitalisation of many processes and procedures in the country, this could help solve the problem of queues in the grain corridor. Moreover, there is already a positive example of the use of digital technologies in this area.

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