The Baltic countries offered their ports for Ukrainian exports

The Baltic countries offered their infrastructure, including port infrastructure, to support the export of Ukrainian agricultural products.

Lithuania offered to strengthen the transport route between Ukraine and the Baltic countries to support the export of Ukrainian agricultural products.

On this occasion, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Communications and Agriculture of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis, Marius Skoudis and Kjastutis Navickas addressed the European Commission.

“Russia’s decision to end the Black Sea Grain Initiative, as well as the bombing of the Odesa port, worsens the already difficult situation with food security in the world,” the letter says.

The ministers noted that a promising and long-term alternative for the export of Ukrainian grain could be the transport route between Ukraine and the Baltic countries — the Baltic Road. Improving the infrastructure of the corridor and facilitating the handling of cargo between different railway tracks will contribute to increasing the transport capacity.

“The infrastructure of the Baltic countries can become a promising and reliable transit route for Ukrainian products. The seaports of the Baltic countries have a large throughput capacity of agricultural products — 25 million tons per year for grain alone,” the ministers emphasized.

In the letter, the politicians called on the European Commission to actively cooperate with all EU member states to ensure the transit of Ukrainian products and evaluate specific measures proposed by Lithuania to strengthen the alternative route of the Baltic route.

Previously, USM reported that Lithuania and Croatia offered their ports for the export of Ukrainian grain.