Russia’s strikes on infrastructure may temporarily reduce Ukrainian grain exports to 5 million tons in April

Russia’s strikes on infrastructure, particularly port infrastructure, could reduce Ukraine’s grain exports in April to 5 million tons instead of the expected 8 million tons, a grain market source who asked to remain anonymous told Interfax-Ukraine.

“In the first 10 days, Ukraine was able to export about 2 million tons of grain through ports. This gave us hope for record exports of 8 million tons per month. However, the damage is so severe that grain deliveries, in particular to the Chornomorsk port, will have to be suspended for several days,” he said.

At the same time, the agency’s source expressed confidence that traders and agricultural holdings whose terminals are located in the Chornomorsk port will quickly adapt to the situation and deliver products for loading onto ships by road.

“In any case, Ukraine will not stop grain exports via the Black Sea sea grain сorridor,” he said.

Another market source told the agency that the Russian occupiers had damaged railroad sidings to a number of grain terminals located in the Chornomorsk port during the morning shelling of Odesa region.

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