Following the results of the Mixed Commission, the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine signed a protocol with the Ministry of Transport of Norway on the “transport visa-free regime”, which provides for permit-free freight transport. It will apply to trucks of Euro 5 standard and higher.
Ukrainian farmers are not expected to reduce the area of winter wheat they sow for the 2024 harvest despite higher logistics costs due to the wartime export crisis, a senior farming official told Reuters on Tuesday.
Ukraine will fight to ensure that there are no restrictions on the export of its grain to the EU.
This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba during a press conference with his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky in Prague on Monday.
The second vessel blocked due to the war has left the port of Odesa and is now sailing through a temporary corridor.
Astarta’s agricultural enterprises have completed harvesting of early grain crops on 57 kha. The total gross harvest of spring crops exceeds 330 kt, including 271 kt of winter wheat and 56 kt of winter rapeseed.
Ukraine’s path to the European Union is unchanged, and an important part of it is the development of fast logistics in the western direction. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a Government session on 22 August.
According to the Prime Minister, the Government has set three key tasks to improve the functioning of the Ukrainian-European border.
Ukraine has inched closer to finalising a deal with global insurance companies to offer coverage for grain ships travelling to and from its Black Sea ports, according to the Financial Times.
As we move towards integration with the EU, we need to make decisions that meet the interests of domestic business and the development of the Ukrainian economy. This was stated by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, in her speech at the discussion panel “Ukraine as a part of the EU internal market” as part of the conference on assessing Ukraine’s readiness to join the EU, which took place in Kyiv on 17 August.
Ukraine is counting on the support of the World Trade Organisation to help restore Ukrainian agricultural exports. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a meeting with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who visited Kyiv.
Ukraine shipped 8.1 million tonnes of grain through the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta in the first seven months of the year, the port authority told Reuters, with the pace slowing in July when Russia began attacking infrastructure at its inland ports.