Ukrainian ports have lost the ability to accumulate about 2.5 million tons of cargo each month

Due to Russian attacks, the throughput capacity of Ukrainian port logistics has decreased, which creates problems for grain exports on the eve of the new season.

This was reported by Bohdan Kostetsky, an operating partner of the trade and analytical company Barva Invest, Agro Times reports.

According to him, before the full-scale war, Ukraine could accumulate up to 7 million tons of bulk cargo in ports every month. Currently, the combined figure for road and rail transport is about 4–5 million tons.

The reason for the reduction was systematic Russian attacks on railway stations, depots, locomotives, ports, terminals and civilian merchant vessels.

“The loss of monthly accumulation in deep-water ports is about 2.5 million tons and creates a “bottleneck” for grain, some volumes of which cannot reach export destinations,” Kostetsky noted.

As a result, Ukraine enters the new season with transitional residues of about 4 million tons of corn and about the same volume of wheat. Larger stocks were recorded only after the start of the full-scale invasion, when deep-sea ports were closed.

At the same time, alternative routes cannot currently compensate for the reduction in port logistics capabilities. About 100 thousand tons of agricultural products are exported monthly through the Danube ports, another 100 thousand tons by road, and 300-400 thousand tons by rail to European markets.

Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian agricultural sector lost $11 billion due to Russian attacks.