Ukraine limits grain supplies to Odesa due to railway repairs

In order to make repairs, Ukraine’s national railways announced on Wednesday that it has limited grain shipments to Odesa, one of the major Black Sea ports in the nation. Valeriy Tkachov, deputy head of the railroads’ commercial department, posted on Facebook that “Ukrzaliznytsia has started repairing the railway infrastructure on its network, which hinders the movement of goods trains towards the ports of Odesa region.” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced on Tuesday that since the route opened in August, the nation had exported about four million metric tonnes via an alternate Black Sea shipping route. The majority of the goods travelling via the route, which follows the southwest coast of the Black Sea in Ukraine, into Romanian territorial waters, and then on to Turkey, are grains and other food supplies. Ukraine has long exported food, metals, and other goods from its deep-water Black Sea ports in the Odesa area. (With agency inputs)