Fire broke out at the port of Odesa region, apparently due to the conveyor belt of the grain warehouse. The Ukrainian authorities have not yet explained the cause of the fire, and local residents said they did not hear any explosion.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Odesa port was once closed. Under the mediation of the United Nations and Turkey, the Black Sea Grain Initiative was signed in July 2022, allowing Ukraine to export grain through three Black Sea ports, including Odesa. However, due to occasional missile and drone attacks on Odesa port and its surrounding infrastructure, export operations have frequently been interrupted.
According to official Ukrainian data, the average monthly grain exports through the temporary Black Sea corridor since 2024 have been about 1-2 million tons (over 5 million tons per month before the Russia-Ukraine conflict). To increase grain exports, some Ukrainian grain is transported through Danube River ports (such as Izmail), railways, and highways via EU countries for transshipment (such as Poland and Romania), but transportation efficiency and costs are not as good as direct exports via the Black Sea.
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