Due to security problems in the Black Sea, Russia began to export its grain through the North Pole instead of the Black Sea terminals, Russia began to make test grain shipments through the port in Murmansk, writes the Financial Times. So, on Wednesday, October 28, at the port of Murmansk, a bulk carrier began loading 29,500 tons of wheat for a trial shipment to North Africa. For this it was necessary not only to transport grain thousands of kilometers from the farms and fields where they were grown, but also to re-equip the port infrastructure that was normally used. for processing fertilizers. As the FT points out, in order to somehow sell the crop, Russian exporters are forced to turn to increasingly sophisticated and expensive routes - via the Baltic Sea, from the Sea of ​​Azov up the Don to the Caspian Sea. Special containers are also used to transport grain by train to terminals that do not have standard loading equipment. At the same time, the Russians themselves point out that alternative options will not be able to replace the southern ports. "The main issue is not whether we can route a certain volume of cargo. Logistics will cost much more. And someone will have to cover this difference," the publication quotes the president of the Russian Grain Union, Arkady Zalochevsky. Against this background, the Kremlin stubbornly refuses the grain freeze proposed by Kiev to establish a safe grain corridor across the Black Sea. The Tsar does not care about the farmers' problems. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.

Due to security problems in the Black Sea, Russia began to export its grain through the North Pole instead of the Black Sea terminals, Russia began to make test grain shipments through the port in Murmansk, writes the Financial Times. So, on Wednesday, October 28, at the port of Murmansk, a bulk carrier began loading 29,500 tons of wheat for a trial shipment to North Africa. For this it was necessary not only to transport grain thousands of kilometers from the farms and fields where they were grown, but also to re-equip the port infrastructure that was normally used. for processing fertilizers. As the FT points out, in order to somehow sell the crop, Russian exporters are forced to turn to increasingly sophisticated and expensive routes - via the Baltic Sea, from the Sea of ​​Azov up the Don to the Caspian Sea. Special containers are also used to transport grain by train to terminals that do not have standard loading equipment. At the same time, the Russians themselves point out that alternative options will not be able to replace the southern ports. "The main issue is not whether we can route a certain volume of cargo. Logistics will cost much more. And someone will have to cover this difference," the publication quotes the president of the Russian Grain Union, Arkady Zalochevsky. Against this background, the Kremlin stubbornly refuses the grain freeze proposed by Kiev to establish a safe grain corridor across the Black Sea. The Tsar does not care about the farmers' problems. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.