Temporary blockage of Ukrainian ports due to Russia’s full-scale military aggression forced Ukrainian flour millers to look for new routes to the world market, Serhiy Sakirkin, head of the audit commission of Millers of Ukraine, noted.
"Millers could use road and rail transport to deliver to a consumer or to the nearest foreign port. But the transportation costs increased significantly. As a result, the cheapest way was to transport flour to the countries bordering with Ukraine. First, to the port, where it was transshipped into containers. After the removal of trade restrictions for Ukraine by the European Union, flour was shipped for sale within the EU", – the expert pointed out.
He noted that most of Ukrainian flour was shipped to Moldova in 2022, as the logistics did not change. Deliveries amounted to 21.79 thsd tonnes or 27.6% of the total volume of annual shipments.
"The volumes of flour exported to Moldova did not differ much from the shipments of recent years and were even somewhat higher. At the same time, the supply to Poland can be called a real breakthrough. Poland produces an average of 3.7 mln tonnes of flour per year and by no means suffers from a shortage of this product. But the price/quality ratio helped to sell almost 10 thsd tonnes of Ukrainian flour to Poland", – S. Sakirkin emphasized.
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