Ukraine urgently needs to export grain as its harvest starts this summer with farmers facing a lack of storage capacity.
HAMBURG, Germany – German national railways Deutsche Bahn plans to start freight train services to carryGrains will be brought by rail to German ports including Rostock, Hamburg, and Brake, DB said.
Details of capacity were not given but several trains a week are planned, largely picking up Ukrainian grain in Romania. The DB has been running trains from Germany loaded with aid cargoes for Ukraine and it is planned that freight trains will load grain on their return journeys. Ukrainian agricultural exports were about 2.5 million metric tons in June against up to 6 million metric tons of grain per month beforeUnited Nations agencies have warned that lack of Ukrainian grain, which typically goes to the
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