Poultry farmers have reoriented exports to ports in Romania, Poland, and the Baltic countries

Due to the blockade of ports, the industry has returned to the logistics schemes it used in 2022.

Ukrainian exporters of poultry products have changed logistics routes due to restrictions on shipping in the Black Sea. This was reported by Serhiy Karpenko, executive director of the Poultry Farmers Union of Ukraine, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

The products are delivered by road to the ports of Romania, Poland, and the Baltic countries, from where they are sent to their final destinations.

Previously, a significant part of the products was exported in containers through the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. Now companies have to return to the schemes they used in 2022.

The reason is that container lines do not enter Ukrainian ports. You can only send a container through Polish or Romanian terminals.

The industry operates under several simultaneous restrictions. Among them, the association names security risks, energy crisis, disruption of logistics chains and a sharp increase in cost.

At the same time, exports remain crucial for balancing the domestic market: Ukraine’s population is shrinking and purchasing power is low, so the surplus of products puts pressure on prices.

To maintain production and restore infrastructure, the association proposes to expand state support. In particular, it is about increasing the percentage of reservation of workers in the agro-industrial complex and creating a larger-scale mechanism for insurance of military risks based on public-private partnership.

As USM wrote the day before, Ukraine’s food exports in ten months reached almost $18.6 billion.