Grain was assigned the third category in railway transport for priority export

Against the backdrop of problems with the export of grain through the Black Sea ports, this product was given the third category in railway transport, which means priority in movement in relation to almost all cargo. Kommersant writes about this with reference to several sources.

According to them, the corresponding order from the country's President Vladimir Putin concerns all areas. At the same time, from October 1, cargo priority will be introduced in the North-Western direction, which turned out to be overloaded.

The most serious impact on the situation was the flow of agricultural cargo. Thus, over the three weeks of September, the average daily loading from the roads of the South-Western range to the Oktyabrskaya Railway increased in annual terms by 5.5 times.

However, senior analyst at the Center for Price Indexes Roman Shagalov believes that the introduction of a priority order will not greatly affect the volume of grain supplies to the ports of the North-West.

He pointed out that the Baltic does not have enough capacity to store grain, and port stations are already operating at excessive load levels, having difficulty processing incoming car traffic. Coal, metal and other cargo are redirected to the same ports, so traffic control on the network may be complicated.

The material states that in the port of Ust-Luga there is a Novotrans trade terminal with a grain complex with a nominal capacity of up to seven million tons per year, and in Vysotsk the port allows the transshipment of four million tons. At the same time, the port of Novorossiysk alone handled 18.8 million tons of grain last year, that is, one and a half times more.