Ukrainian seaports doubled grain exports in August

Source

APK-Inform

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According to the monitoring reports by APK-Inform Agency, in the period of August 1-31, 2020, the seaports of Ukraine doubled the export volumes of major grain crops. Thus, in the reporting period the seaports shipped for exports 5.49 mln tonnes of grains, up 2 times compared with the previous month volumes (2.53 mln tonnes, taking into account the updated figures).

In particular, in the reporting period the shipments of wheat increased by 3 times to 4.08 mln tonnes, barley— by 30.6% to 1.24 mln tonnes. At the same time, the ports decreased the shipment of corn by 27% to 164 thsd tonnes.

In the reporting month, Indonesia was the largest importer of wheat (667.8 thsd tonnes), China was the main destination for barley (823.4 thsd tonnes) and corn (101.1 thsd tonnes).

In 2020/21 MY, the Mykolaiv Sea Commercial Port (2.45 mln tonnes) still remained the leader in the exports of major grain crops. The Sea Commercial Port of Pivdennyj (1.7 mln tonnes) and the Chornomorsk Commercial Sea Port (1.51 mln tonnes) took the second and third positions respectively.

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