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In August, Romania took first place in terms of the volume of Ukrainian grain received by rail – an average of 44.7 wagons are transferred through border crossings per day.

Among the vessels exposed are dry cargo ships transporting agricultural products from the TOT, oil tankers and gas carriers of the sanctioned Arctic LNG-2 project.

The government has adopted new decisions to support farmers amid a decline in exports due to the lack of ship calls to the ports of Great Odesa.

Due to the increase in the number of vessels and bad weather, the waiting time at the entrance to the Sulinsky Canal has increased to approximately 2–3 days.

After the incident with the explosion of a Ukrainian drone in the port of Constanta in June, the military of Romania and Ukraine established a direct communication channel in almost real time.

After the shutdown of three key grain terminals in Novorossiysk, Russia has restricted cargo transportation to the port.

A fire broke out in the Russian port of Ust-Luga after a drone attack at night, and local authorities reported damage.

Ukraine has passed on to Russia, through a third party, a proposal to mutually cease attacks on civilian targets in the Black Sea.

In August-October, Ukraine may not deliver about 9 million tons of agricultural products to foreign markets due to the reduction in available export capacities.

Interpipe has redirected part of its exports to North America and the Middle East through one of the European ports after the blockade of the seaports of the Odesa region.

In the Danube ports, the demand prices for food wheat increased by $1–4 per ton this week due to low grain supply from farmers.

In the first 12 days of August, Ukraine exported only 280 thousand tons of grain and legumes, while last year this figure exceeded 1.15 million tons.

SE “MTP “Pivdennyi” is preparing heat and energy infrastructure, backup power sources, port fleet and transshipment equipment.

Due to the closure of the ports of Great Odesa, Ukraine can export only about 29.6 million tons of agricultural products in the 2026/27 marketing year out of the planned 64.4 million tons.

The attacks on the port infrastructure of the Mykolaiv region are taking place against the backdrop of systematic Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports and civilian vessels.

Turkey is discussing the creation of two separate safe routes in the Black Sea – for ships heading to Ukraine and Russia.

Moscow has begun importing gasoline from India for the first time, and the fuel is delivered via a complex route with transshipment off the coast of Egypt.

Among the affected ships are two frigates of project 11356, a small missile ship “Buyan-M” and a patrol ship “Vasiliy Bykov”.