December 7, 2010

Ukrainian ports to continue grain shipment

Ukrainian ports continue to have grains and by-products loadings in accordance to personnel arrangements, according to data from APK-Inform Agency.

For example, Illichevsk port shipped 34,500 tonnes of wheat and over 48,000 tonnes of corn last week. Odessa Commercial Sea Port continued corn shipment works. The ports also continued the active loading of oilseeds and sunflower oil.

According to the market operators, the delays during the loadings really exist, but they appear due to the errors in the processing of documents, introduced for the commodities licensing and can be removed during the next few days.

Currently, there are no artificially delayed vessels in the Ukrainian ports. All the export operations are being carried out on time. As a result, the country gets grains, oilseeds, and by-products stable export trading.

Leonid Kozachenko, the President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, previously announced that grains export trading is still blocked as the Ministry of Economy does not want to issue licenses to grain trading enterprises. According to his data, the situation caused grain volumes to accumulate in the ports at the level of 183,000 tonnes.