Poland will control grain transit from Ukraine with the help of trackers

UkrAgroConsult

Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky said that Poland will control the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products using special trackers. He said this at a Zoom conference on Wednesday.

“Transit opens from Thursday to Friday [April 21]. There are additional control measures that will be carried out by the Polish side. We are currently working out the details to make it work,” he said.

So far, the plan is as follows: exporters arrive at the border, fill out a transit declaration, and receive a special tracker that will track the location of the truck or railroad car.

“The tracker shows that the truck or wagons are going to ports or other EU countries. In the first week, if the Polish side wishes, they can provide physical escort by their customs officers to draw conclusions for themselves,” the minister explained.

He said that Polish transit is very important for Ukraine, as it accounts for a significant percentage of Ukrainian agricultural exports. In terms of percentage, up to 10% of agricultural exports went through Poland, half of which remained in the country and the rest went further.

“Among the Western countries, the largest transit is through Romania, the smallest – through Slovakia. The second country after Romania in terms of exports and domestic consumption was Poland,” the minister said.

“If we are talking about Hungary, it is 5-6%, Slovakia – 1.5%, Romania – tens of percent, of which 90% is transit,” the minister said.

The ministry is still calculating Ukraine’s potential losses due to export problems.

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