07-14-2022, 11:48 AM
The Russian evacuation of Snake Island has allowed shipping of grain from Ukraine via the Ukrainian part of the Danube Canal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukr...2022-07-12
While this isn't exactly a flood of grain, it helps in increasing traffic via the Danube. The grain still has to be loaded in Romania as I understand it, which adds considerable time and expense.
It will be interesting to see if the talks in Turkey about opening southern Ukrainian ports to grain exports get anywhere. It may be Russia thinks the "good publicity" would be worth allowing it, but I can see lots of reasons it might not work anyway, like Ukraine insisting that no "stolen grain" leave ports on the Sea of Azov. Russia certainly won't agree to that, yet for Ukraine giving in on that may be politically difficult.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukr...2022-07-12
While this isn't exactly a flood of grain, it helps in increasing traffic via the Danube. The grain still has to be loaded in Romania as I understand it, which adds considerable time and expense.
It will be interesting to see if the talks in Turkey about opening southern Ukrainian ports to grain exports get anywhere. It may be Russia thinks the "good publicity" would be worth allowing it, but I can see lots of reasons it might not work anyway, like Ukraine insisting that no "stolen grain" leave ports on the Sea of Azov. Russia certainly won't agree to that, yet for Ukraine giving in on that may be politically difficult.