They said they were suffering from "an unprecedented increase" in imports from Ukraine, particularly of grain, oilseeds, eggs and poultry. In March, five eastern European countries, including Poland, Romania and Hungary, asked Brussels for help to support their farmers. Russia gained control of the strategic Chinese Port of Lshun (Port. This unprecedented influx of agricultural commodities has not gone unnoticed. The Russian railways, shown on the map, connecting the Caspian Sea (and the great. This changeover was facilitated by Brussels, which, in June 2022, suspended its import duties from Ukraine and all anti-dumping measures on steel from the country for a renewable year. The ports and harbors located in Russia, with container liner service, are shown on the map below.Ports are color coded by size. 53.6% of its exports headed to Europe in 2022, compared to only 39.1% in 2021.Īfter falling at the beginning of the conflict, exports to the EU have recovered dramatically to their pre-war level at around €2.5 billion, even though there has been an overall decrease of 35% that same year. After multiple port closures on the Black Sea as well as at the borders with Russia and Belarus, Ukraine has found itself tied to Europe's economy. In the war-torn country, new Ukrainian trade routes are land-based and lead to the European Union (EU). He remembered "containers hanging from cranes swinging in the sky" and "ships coming from all over the world." He managed a port terminal there until it was closed in February 2022, at the beginning of the war.Ī symbol of the transformation of Ukraine's economy, he is now at the head of another terminal, far from the sea and container ships, planted in the middle of a landscape of snow and dead trees in Mostyska, near the Polish border. He was enjoying his new life but sometimes missed Kherson, the port city in the south of the country that he left a few months ago.
On a snowy road in western Ukraine, Valeriy Krupko sat at the wheel of his German sedan heading straight for Poland. JENS BÜTTNER / DPA / PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES Subscribers only Delivery of grain from Ukraine in the port of Rostock (Germany), August 23, 2022. There is no more access via the Black Sea ports, now the flows are overland and resolutely inclined towards the European Union.īy Julien Bouissou (Mostyska (Ukraine) special correspondent) Published on April 14, 2023, at 3:00 pm (Paris) The war has changed the map of Ukrainian trade routes. Russia's invasion pushes Ukraine's economy closer to the EU
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