Ukraine’s main inland port hit by Russian strikes

The Russian strikes hit “warehouses and grain silos at Ukrainian port sites on the Danube, damaging nearly 40,000 tons of grain,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandre Kubrakov said on Telegram, recalling that these infrastructures have become crucial for grain exports.
According to the Ukrainian army, the port of Izmail, near the Romanian border on the river, was targeted at dawn on Wednesday August 2. are able to load [the grain] or if there is a real blockage of flows”, generating need on the cereals market, underlined Sébastien Poncelet of the Agritel cabinet.
On Wednesday at 6 p.m., the maritime traffic site reports that around 100 AIS from merchant ships stopped in the Gulf of Musura, at the mouth of the Danube in the Black Sea, that Russia slammed the door on the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, on July 17 , the two small river ports of Izmaïl and Réni, in the Odessa region on the border with Romania, have become the main exit route for Ukrainian wheat and maize.

“Between 3.5 and 4 million tonnes of cereals can be transported each month by the river”, explained to AFP Damien Vercambre, courtier at Inter courtage. On July 24, the port of Reni had already been bombarded.

Romanian port of Constanta under pressure
The Danube, departing from the Ukrainian inland ports, makes it possible to reach the Romanian port of Constanta, to the south, to take the traditional route of the Bosphorus via the Black Sea, but also the Romanian rail network, to the west. Since the expiration of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), port companies in Constanta are facing recovery, and some are investing to pick up the pace as the port becomes a bottleneck. Since the beginning of the year, the main Romanian port, under pressure, has received 7.5 million tonnes of cereals produced by its large exporting neighbor, almost as much already as for the whole of 2022 (8.7 million). On Wednesday afternoon, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, asking him “not to take any action that could cause an escalation of tensions” in the Black Sea.

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