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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.

Tarragona port to attend Seventeenth Meeting of Cereal Operators to promote itself as agri-food logistics hub

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Last week, the port of Tarragona attended Encuentro Nacional de Operadoras de Cereales (ENOC –...

Delta Wilmar signs for public-private partnership project in Yuzhny port

Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Delta Wilmar CIS LLC and Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) have signed amendments to a...

VTB Acquires 100% of Novorossiysk Grain Terminal from NSCP Group

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – VTB Bank and Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port have announced on the acquisition by VTB Group of...

POSCO Daewoo to buy share in Mykolaiv port grain terminal

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – South Korea’s POSCO Daewoo has signed an agreement with local logistics company Orexim Group...

Ukraine looks to improve land and port transport of agricultural products

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 26, 2018 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan held a meeting to seek...

Grain exports via Ukrainian seaports doubles in last five year

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 24, 2018 – In the last five years, the volume of grain exports through Ukraine’s seaports has...

Italy’s Cereal Docks invests €60 million in Venice ports in seven years

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian company Cereal Docks SpA has invested a total of €60 million ($68.6 million) in the overhaul...

Swiss grain trader Ameropa invests in Romania’s Constanta port

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 – Swiss grain and fertiliser trader Ameropa AG is to expand the Chimpex grain terminal at Constanta...

Spain’s Molisur applies for concession at Seville port

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Spanish flour maker Molinos Harineros del Sur SAU, known for its commercial brand ‘Molisur’,...

Kazakhstan Railway Company to transport up to 10,000 tons of grain to Mersin port monthly

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 7, 2018 – Kazakhstan Railway Company (KTJ) plans to send up to 10,000 tons of grain from the Kuryk port to...

Cereal contract signed between Luka Bar and Agroglobe of Serbia

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 2, 2018 – A contract for the transfer of cereals through the port of Bar was signed between Luka Bar AD and...

Cargill and MV Cargo Yuzhny port grain terminal 80% complete

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – U.S. Cargill, an international producer and distributor of agricultural products, and the local MV Cargo...

President of Ukraine opens the first stage of Cargill/MV Cargo grain terminal launch

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and shareholder MV Cargo Andriy Stavnitser have launched the first...

Las Palmas port takes advantage of USA-China trade battle

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – Las Palmas port is taking advantage from the open commercial battle between the United States and China. The...

Cargill to invest €18.2 million in Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2018 – Cargill, the international commodity company, plans to invest €18.2 million ($22.2 million) in expanding...

Cargill MV Cargo grain terminal set for first mln tons of grain exports in 2018

Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – The grain terminal of Cargill and MV Cargo in Yuzhny port, is forecast to transfer the first one million...

Nibulon management delegation visits Damietta port

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) april 5, 2018 – The Ukrainian grain trader Nibulon is considering an investment in grain storage and transport projects...

Bayonne port participates in Spain’s Interpirenáica grain fair

Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – France’s Bayonne port participated in the 146th edition of the Interpirenáica grain fair, held in...

Tarragona port takes part in Interpirenáica cereal fair

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – Tarragona port participated last week in the Interpirenáica Cereals fair in Mollerussa, Catalonia, which...

Brazilian companies to export 6 million tonnes of grain via Las Palmas port 

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – The president of Las Palmas port, Luis Ibarra, signed a few days ago in Brazil an agreement with grain...

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