Ukraine increases road food exports in September - brokers

Ukraine, which has to export its bumper grain and vegetable oil output, has increased its road shipments in September, brokers said on Wednesday. Spike Brokers said that 514,000 metric tons of agricultural goods were exported by lorries in September, compared with 506,000 tons in August. "Around 35% of automotive exports pass through checkpoints on the border with Poland.

Ukraine, which has to export its bumper grain and vegetable oil output, has increased its road shipments in September, brokers said on Wednesday. Spike Brokers said that 514,000 metric tons of agricultural goods were exported by lorries in September, compared with 506,000 tons in August.

"Around 35% of automotive exports pass through checkpoints on the border with Poland. About 25% of the exports pass through the border with Romania," Spike Brokers said on Telegram messaging app. Brokers said that rapeseed, sunoil and wheat dominated the export shipments.

The company expects that the volume could increase further if Warsaw opens its local market for Ukrainian food. Relations with Warsaw have soured since it banned Ukrainian food imports, citing the need to protect its own farmers, although it still allows the transit of Ukrainian goods through Poland en route to other countries.

Ukraine is still trying to secure a deal with Warsaw in the dispute over the import restrictions, imposed by the Polish government before a parliamentary election on Oct. 15. Poland and other eastern European countries are not usually big markets for Ukrainian grain shipments, but supplies to these countries have grown significantly since the wartime blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports deprived Kyiv of traditional markets in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

However, regions of eastern European countries that border Ukraine used to frequently import Ukrainian food, which could be cheaper than local food due to logistical proximity. "The removal of import barriers by Eastern European countries could lead to an increase in road exports to almost 1 million tonnes per month or 12 million tonnes per year," brokers said.

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