Ukraine transported more than 1.5 million tons of grain through Poland

Since the beginning of the russian invasion in February, Ukraine has transported more than 1.5 million tons of grain through Poland.

Poland plans to further develop the export route from Ukraine so that the grain reaches Arab countries and North Africa. Polish Minister of Agriculture Henryk Kowalczyk said this, Gospodarka Morska reports.

The Minister noted that currently the export of Ukrainian agricultural products by Poland significantly exceeds the indicators before the February invasion, “however, these are not the volumes that could satisfy Ukraine.”

Kovalchyk emphasized the “significant technical obstacles” in the export issue, such as different track widths in Ukraine and the EU, and bottlenecks at checkpoints. He also informed that as of the end of September, the transportation of Ukrainian grain through Poland amounted to 1.5 million tons.

The Black Sea “grain corridor” somewhat eased the situation with exports, the minister noted, but the further fate of the initiative is unknown.

“I spoke with the Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine in Warsaw. There are also fears that it (corridor, USM) can be closed at any moment, there are also difficulties with the passage of ships through the Bosphorus,” Kovalchyk added.

Poland plans to develop a grain export route from Ukraine so that the grain reaches the countries of North Africa and the Arab countries, but Europe must “help technically, because if these countries do not receive grain, there will be famine.” The Polish minister reminded that Europe will feel the food crisis in the countries of the third world, because the flow of migrants to the EU will begin from them.

Kovalchyk also assured the Poles that there is no threat to the country’s food security, as Poland has “overproduction of food”. He noted that the value of Polish exports last year amounted to almost 40 billion euros, and in recent months it has already exceeded 30 billion euros.