The Black Sea is more profitable: Ukrainian agricultural company stopped working in the port of Gdansk

The company left the investment package to Polish partners, but is ready to resume cooperation if necessary.

The agricultural enterprise “Volyn-Zerno-Produkt” (“VILIYA”) no longer tranships grain in the port of Gdansk, where it has been renting a terminal with a capacity of 30 thousand tons since 2022. This is reported by Latifundist.

“We thank them for the good cooperation, it helped us resolve many issues. Having left them the investment package, we suspended cooperation. If the need arises in the future, we are open to new agreements and are ready to cooperate again, in particular regarding the supply of grain,” said the founder of the company, Yevhen Dudka.

According to him, even from Volyn it is now more profitable to export grain through the ports of the Black Sea than through the Baltic. The company does not have permanent work in the Polish direction, and when supplying to Germany or the Netherlands, it is ready to accept a discount of $5–10 per ton from the port, but no more.

The Volyn terminal “VILIYI” now processes other cargoes – scrap metal, mineral fertilizers and diesel. Grain is shipped in much smaller volumes – two to three trains per week. According to Dudka, transit through Poland will become truly attractive only after Ukraine joins the EU.

Earlier, USM reported that the United States will be able to send liquefied gas to Ukraine via Gdansk, where a floating regasification plant will be based.