Ukrzaliznytsia today is more prepared for the growth of grain transportation towards the western border crossings than in March-April of this year, when the Russian Federation completely blocked the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. Railway Supply magazine writes about this with reference to Rail.insider.

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“Of course, after Russia’s announcements about withdrawing from the grain agreement, we expect that the transportation of grain through the western border crossings by rail will become more active again. And we, today, are more prepared for such a development of events than we were in March-April, – said Valery Tkachev, deputy director of the department of commercial work of UZ. — We have already updated the list of grain transshipment terminals operating on the western borders. We will work directly with them and promptly resolve all their current issues and problems.

According to Valery Tkachev, the Russian Federation “planned in advance to stop the export of grain from Ukraine and was only looking for an excuse.” “Last month, we constantly stated the deliberate actions of the aggressor country to reduce grain exports from Ukraine, they reduced the number of ship inspections and the number of observers in the monitoring group, and so on,” he said.

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There are currently 13 cargo border crossings with 5 neighboring countries, but UZ has plans to increase the number of border crossings. In particular, the procedures for opening an additional crossing from Moldova on the Berezine-Basarabeasca line are being completed.

“In early October, we had a meeting with representatives of the Moldovan side, where we agreed to organize a common checkpoint at the Moldovan Basarabeasca station within a month and a half. We are preparing in 1-2 months the opening of more additional cargo crossings: Rava-Russkaya – Grebennoe (along the 1435 mm trck), additional crossings – Starzhava-Krostsenko (Poland); Business-Valya-Visheului (Romania),” said Valery Tkachev.

He also added that the existing border crossings are not fully operational.

Recall that Russia announced that it was stopping participation in the implementation of the “grain agreement” allegedly because of the “act of terrorism” in the Sevastopol Bay on October 29. However, on the morning of Monday, October 31, ships with food left the ports of Odessa.

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