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.
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...
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 –Â Kazakhstan Railway Company (KTJ) plans to send up to 10,000 tons of grain from the Kuryk port to...