Ukraine stopped exporting agricultural products from Black Sea ports due to the blockade

Ukraine has stopped exporting agricultural products from Black Sea ports due to their blockade, said the country's Minister of Agrarian Policy Taras Vysotsky.

“Today there is no export from Greater Odessa, it is absent,” Vysotsky said in a video published on the Telegram channel of the Novosti.LIVE publication.

According to him, since August of this year, exports have been carried out via alternative routes - railway, river and road transport. However, as the minister notes, the maximum capacity of alternative logistics routes allows covering only half of Ukraine’s export needs.

“We have a basic need for exports - about five million tons per month, 60 million tons per year,” Vysotsky added.

As the minister noted, the main burden fell on the railway - about 45% and the river corridor through the Danube - also 45%, but these routes are already approaching their limit. Any attempts, according to Vysotsky, to expand land logistics beyond this limit will lead to higher transportation costs, which will make selling crops abroad economically unprofitable.

The Ukrainian analytical consulting company GMK Center previously reported that Ukraine stopped exporting pig iron due to the blockade of the Black Sea ports.