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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.

Silopor Trafaria receives record corn unloading

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – The Trafaria Food Bulk Terminal, operated by SILOPOR, is a terminal specialized in the reception of...

Galigrain to double investment in the outer port, A Coruña

Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2021 – The President of the Port Authority of A Coruña, Martín Fernández Prado, held his first meeting today...

Construction of a new berth 1 at Odessa seaport completed

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 4, 2021 – Construction of a new berth 1-z has been completed in Odessa sea trade port, part of an investment...

A new grain terminal to be built in Varna, Bulgaria

Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) December 16, 2020 – Agria Group Holding, a Bulgarian grain producer and trader, is preparing to build a €30 million...

South Korea’s Posco imports grain from Mykolaiv port, Ukraine

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 8, 2020 – Posco International has imported 68,000 metric tons of feed wheat from Ukraine, for the first time in...

A.P. Moller Capital acquires 40% stake in Moroccan port grain facilities

Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 4, 2020 – A.P. Moller Capital has, via the Africa Infrastructure Fund 1, acquired a 49% shareholding in...

Tripoli port ready to step up and support supplies to Lebanon

Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 5, 2020 – Following the destruction of the port of Beirut yesterday by a giant explosion, Ahmad Tamer,...

2019/20 marketing year became one of the best in the history of NIBULON

NIBULON ended the last marketing year with the result of 4.9 million tons of Ukrainian exports of grain and oilseeds. Thus, the last three marketing years...

KSK Grain Terminal in Novorossiysk port set for reconstruction

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) July 23, 2020 – The KSK Grain Terminal has been operated at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk by DeloPorts since...

Bunge starts rail tests to transport soybean meal between Barcelona port and Aragon

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 18, 2020 – Bunge, a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients,...

Morocco increases grain handling by ports

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 17, 2020 – Up to the end-April 2020, Morocco imported increase volumes volumes of grain through its ports in...

Ancona port prepares to demolish silos to kick start redevelopment

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) January 15, 2020 – The port authority has started the process has started to demolish 12 structures on the Darsena Marche...

Ukrainian grain shipments increase in 2019

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 22, 2019 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has reported that in less than 11 months of 2019,...

Ukraine minister discusses Odessa port investment with Rizoil

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 17, 2019 – Last week, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Vladislav Krykliy met with representatives of Risoil...

Posco International and Orexim to open new grain terminal in Mykolaiv

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) September 25, 2019 – The grain terminal of Posco International and Orexim group was scheduled to be opened on 24 September...

USPA and Kernel invest in the development of Chernomorsk port

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) September 5, 2019 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and Kernel company have signed a cooperation agreement for the...

OFID to fund Port Said grain storage facilities

Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) July 30, 2019 – The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed a $14 million loan with Egypt’s Ministry...

POSCO International interested in Mykolaiv port projects

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 21, 2019 – A delegation from South Korea’s POSCO International, together with the local Orexim group, have met...

Volodymyr Omelyan met with representatives of Bunge, Cargill and General Electric

News Release – Volodymyr Omelyan met with representatives of Bunge, Cargill and General Electric – June 28, 2019 During a working visit to the...

Louis Dreyfus Company Ukraine and Brooklyn-Kyiv to work on Odessa port development

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 10, 2019 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA), Louis Dreyfus Company Ukraine LLC and Brooklyn-Kyiv LLC have...

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