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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha met with WFP Acting Executive Director Karl Skau on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Sulina Canal has changed the schedule for the clearance of vessels going out to sea: the commission at mile 36 will now start work at 08:00 — an hour earlier.

About 90% of Ukrainian agricultural exports traditionally go through the Black Sea Corridor, but since August this route has been practically non-operational.

Alternative routes are yielding results, but for some products, high transportation costs make exports unprofitable.

The vessels fly the flags of Barbados, Cameroon, Panama, Belize, Liberia, Turkey, Hong Kong and other countries.

On the night of September 23, the Russians attacked a cargo ship under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda in the Black Sea.

State Enterprise “Moldova Railways” (CFM) has announced a tender for the design of the repair of 183.3 km of railway track towards the Ukrainian border.

Almost the entire Black Sea has been placed within the Joint War Committee’s expanded military risk zone. For shipowners, this means longer periods of additional insurance coverage, and for cargo owners, a potential increase in freight and logistics costs.

USM spoke to market participants about how much the new risks will cost and how they could change Black Sea and Danube logistics.

Maersk has updated its container shipping rates between its Gdansk DCT terminal in Poland and a number of Ukrainian rail terminals.

Since the beginning of the 2026/27 marketing year, as of September 21, Ukraine has exported 4.662 million tons of grains and legumes, which is 22% less than in the same period last season.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and his Panamanian counterpart Javier Martinez-Acha discussed maritime security and freedom of navigation.

While the world watches the Strait of Hormuz and oil, the crisis in the Black Sea is imperceptibly accelerating inflation and undermining the food security of vulnerable countries.

The array contains documentation on nuclear submarines, frigates, corvettes and Arctic ships of the Russian Federation – in particular with the “top secret” stamp.

Russian companies have begun retooling terminals for fertilizers, coal and other cargoes in Baltic and Arctic ports to handle grain exports.

Russia remains one of the largest players in the global grain market, while its agricultural sector remains largely exempt from sanctions.

In Sulina and Tulcea, certain procedures for vessel clearance in the upstream and downstream directions of the Danube have been changed.

Ukraine can export about 1 million tons of wheat in September, but in October the load on logistics will increase significantly due to the intensification of corn supplies.

The research vessel left the dry dock. The “Noosfera” was marked with marks of completed Antarctic seasons.