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Germany’s national railway, Deutsche Bahn, plans to launch freight train services to transport Ukrainian grain exports to German ports, so the shipments can then be loaded onto ships.
The grain will be brought by train to German ports, including ports in Rostock, Hamburg and Brake, the railway company said.
The details of how much the grain export capacity will be has not been made public, but it is planned that several trains within the week will transport the grain. These trains will mainly take Ukrainian grain to Romania.
Deutsche Bahn has been operating trains from Germany that have been filled with aid to Ukraine and plans to have the same trains now filled with grain on their way back.
Ukraine’s grain exports were 2.5 million tonnes in June, compared with the 6 million tonnes the country exported a month before Russia launched its invasion on February 24.
United Nations agencies have warned that shortages of Ukrainian grains, which are mainly exported to the Middle East and Africa, are threatening to cause famine and mass migration “on an unprecedented scale”.
Most of Ukraine’s exports are currently being transported via trucks and ships across rivers to neighboring countries, including Romania and Poland. They are then sent to seaports.
Ukraine urgently needs to export grain before new summer harvests begin, and farmers are facing a lack of space to store their produce.
Due to the export blockade, talks are being held with the aim of creating a safe corridor in the Black Sea through which Ukrainian shipments could pass./Rel
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