Russia reduces grain export rates

According to the monitoring of experts of APK-Inform Agency, in the period of November 14-20, 2011, export companies of Russia shipped 200.2 thsd tonnes of grains, which shows the decrease of exports by 8.5% per week. As a reminder, in the previous week the level of shipments of these products from the country totaled 218.8 thsd tonnes, down 43% compared to the volume (385.5 thsd tonnes), sold in the first week of November 2011.

In particular, the deep-sea port of Rostov-on-Don and Novorossiysk decreased own shipment rates, which shipment volumes formed the largest share of sold grain products. Thus, in the reporting period the port of Novorossiysk did not realize any shipment, while in the previous week Novorossiysk shipped 55 thsd tonnes of wheat against 145.6 thsd tonnes shipped in early November. According to official sources, such sharp decline of grain exports from Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port is caused by the fact that in the period of November 8-11, 2011, the port realized shipping in very slow rates due to overloading of the grain terminal of the port, which resulted in formation of "traffic jam" of grain rail cars. According to port workers, acceptance of grains still be made and soon the situation in Novorossiysk to normalize.

We should note that in the period the deep-sea port of Tuapse exported 80.5 thsd tonnes of wheat, the port of Yeysk - 45.8 thsd tonnes of wheat, and maize - 13.3 thsd tonnes. The port of Azov shipped 24.7 thsd tonnes and 7 thsd tonnes of these products, respectively. It should be noted that for the first time during recent two seasons Azov shipped 6.3 thsd tonnes of wheat to Tanzania. Besides, the port shipped 9.3 thsd tonnes of barley transit. The deep-sea port of Taganrog exported 6.9 thsd tonnes of wheat and 4 thsd tonnes of maize, also shipped 5 thsd tonnes of barley, which is transit cargo through Ukraine.

During November 14-20, 2011, Volgograd river port increased grain exports to the level of 8.5 thsd tonnes of wheat against 2.9 thsd tonnes, and 9.5 thsd tonnes of barley against 5.2 thsd tonnes shipped in the previous week.

Turkey (65.5 thsd tonnes), Morocco (53.4 thsd tonnes), Egypt (33.9 thsd tonnes) and Libya (27 thsd tonnes) were the major importers of Russian grains.