Grain
Port activities linked to the handling of grain and grain products. Includes imports, exports, storage and grain terminal facilities. Regarding ports, currently, the main news subject is Ukrainian grain exports. Exports stopped when the Russian invasion started on February 24, 2022. Following a July agreement, partial grain exports have resumed.
New grain terminal to be built in Russia’s Azov Port
Azov, Russia (PortSEurope) April 18, 2022 – A new grain terminal with capacity of over 1.5 million tonnes per year will be built in Russia’s Azov Sea port...
Ukraine-Russia Conflict: Conflict hits Ukraine’s agriculture and global food prices
Ukraine is a major international supplier of agricultural supplies and conflict is having a big effect on the global food chain. To understand the situation...
Novorossiysk’s KSK terminal broke several records in March
In March 2022, the KSK grain terminal, part of DeloPorts, the stevedoring asset of Delo Group, broke several records related to the transshipment of grain...
Ukraine is looking at Romania’s Constanta port as a way to export farming products such as grain.
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) April 1, 2022 – The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine is looking at Romania’s Constanta port as a...
Çelebi Bandırma Port increases cargo handling in 2021, but grain imports affected by Ukraine crisis
Bandirma, Turkey (PortSEurope) March 23, 2022 – In the year 2021, Çelebi Bandırma Port handled approximately 4.9 million tons of cargo. This compares...
Port of Constanta becomes new grain and metal export door to the world for Ukraine
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) March 14, 2022 – Following the closure of all Ukrainian ports in the Black and the Azov seas after the Russian invasion in...
Grain traders suspend Ukrainian port operations
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) February 25, 2022 – Agricultural trading companies Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM) and Bunge have both suspended operations...
UPDATE – Ukraine can’t use its Black and Azov Sea ports after Russian invasion; Commodities’ export affected
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 26 – Ukraine, invaded by Russia on February 24, became commercially a landlocked country after Moscow blocked the...
Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens grain supplies – port companies suspend activities
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) February 25, 2022 – The Ukrainian authorities have suspended all commercial shipping from its ports, according to a report...
Kernel Holding plans $100 mln investment in Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 17, 2022 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Kernel have agreed a $100 million investment in the Port of...
Dredging complete on the approaches to the Risoil pier, Chernomorsk
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 7, 2022 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) reported last month that it has completed the dredging of the...
KSK received first 100.000-tons grain vessel in Port of Novorossiysk
On January 27, 2022, the KSK Grain Terminal, a part of DeloPorts, a stevedoring asset of Delo Group, received for loading a grain vessel NORAH with a capacity...
Ukraine’s Nibulon ships over 5.64 million tons of agricultural products in 2021
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 14, 2022 – Grain trader Nibulon handled more than 5.64 million tons of agricultural products in 2021. A number of...
Novorossiysk Grain Terminal resumed exporting sunflower oil
The transshipment of vegetable oil for export resumed at the Novorossiysk Grain Terminal for the first time in eight months of the last season – December...
Ukraine’s Pivdenny seaport increases November grain traffic
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2021 – In the month of November, Pivdenny seaport handled 1.34 million tons of grain, a monthly record for the...
Port of Ashdod can now handle megaships
Ashdod, Israel (PortSEurope) October 27, 2021 – The Port of Ashdod is completing renovation on the western side of Platform 21. This allows...
Valenciaport makes it possible for Spanish rice to reach more than 80 countries in the world
València, October 20, 2021.- Tasting an excellent rice of Spanish origin is possible in more than 80 countries around the world thanks to the Port of...
Demetra Trading (Novorossiysk) exports wheat to Saudi Arabia for the first time
For the first time Demetra Trading (Novorossiysk Grain Terminal) exported wheat to Saudi Arabia, the volume of deliveries amounted to 64,000 tons –...
NIBULON moves traffic from roads to water
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 29, 2021 – In August 2021, the company transshipped 442,100 tons of cargoes using its own floating cranes and...
Risoil Terminal signs agreement to invest in Ukraine’s port of Chernomorsk
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 10, 2021 – JV Risoil Terminal LLC has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) to...