About 220,000 MT export intended grains are kept in Odessa port
05.02.2007 11:00 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of now, about 220,000 MT grains intended for export/subject to Government export quota are kept at Odessa Sea Trade Port (OSTP) elevators, reported Yevrovybir Media Group referring to OSTP dispatcher service. «This quantity grains remains unchanged since early Oct 2006. Therefore, part of grain gets regularly spoiled and is thrown away, to be substituted by new lots,» declared dispatcher service employee. However, employee couldn’t answer how much grain has been already spoiled/thrown away since Oct 2006, due to these elevators are owned by stevedore companies As to dispatcher service data, 2 port elevators (Odessa Port Elevator, Subsidiary of State-owned Joint Stock Company Bread of Ukraine and elevator owned by Company Ukrelevatorprom) presently contain about 100,000 MT wheat/barley (each); other 20,000 MT wheat/barley are kept at Company Inzernoexport port warehouse. It is to be reminded, Odessa region will be visited tomorrow by William Tailor, USA Ambassador to Ukraine, who is going to see grains kept at Yuzhniy port elevators (wherein, as to Korespondent magazine data, now big lots export intended grains are rotting due to Cabinet export limitations). Yevrovybir notice: as of Oct 3, 2006 Ukrainian Cabinet had introduced food grains export operations licensing and thus limited this kind grains export. As of Dec 2006, Government had fixed 2006/07 MY 1.1 mn MT grains export quota permitting to export only 3,000 MT wheat, 3,000 MT rye, 600,000 MT barley and 500,000 MT maize until Jul 2007. Yevrovybir Media Group, Odessa
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