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🌾🚢 Ports are being cut off by the Russian blockade, and wheat has already hit the EU quota: Zelensky asks Brussels to expand market access
🇺🇦📉 Volodymyr Zelensky urged the EU to increase quotas for Ukrainian food exports in light of a new blow to maritime logistics. Kyiv’s argument is simple: about 90% of agricultural exports used to go by sea, but due to Russian attacks and shipping problems in the first half of August the pace of grain shipments fell to roughly 20–30% of the required level. Alternative routes via the Danube, rail, and road crossings cannot fully replace Greater Odesa, and changing logistics, according to the agricultural sector’s estimates, adds about $50 to the cost of each ton.
💶🌾 Therefore Kyiv wants to at least partially compensate for the maritime “bottleneck” with broader access to the EU market. And for wheat the problem is already not theoretical: the EU’s annual duty-free quota is 1,3 million tons, and as of 8 April Ukraine had actually used 100% of that volume. If maritime exports do not resume, the problem could become even more acute by autumn: farmers warn of the risk of storage shortages of 8–11 million tons of grain.
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