U.S. plan to increase Ukraine grain exports

The U.S. is working on a plan to build temporary silos along Ukraine’s borders in a bid to export more than 20 million tonnes of grain by rail and address a growing global food crisis

Grain export route	Railway lines	Area under Russian control*

POLAND
1
SLOVAKIA 
HUNGARY 
2
ROMANIA
Constanta
BULGARIA
BELARUS
Kyiv 
UKRAINE
MOLDOVA
Odesa
3
RUSSIA
Kharkiv
Donbas region
Rostov
200km 125 miles
GEORGIA

Crimea
Annexed in 2014

BLACK SEA


1 Poland: Ukrainian rail system operates on different gauge, so grain must be transferred to different trains at border, where there are not many storage facilities

2 Romania: Involves transport by rail to ports on Danube river and loading cargoes onto barges for sailing to Constanta – complex and costly process

3 Black Sea: Ukraine and Russia have laid sea mines, trapping dozens of foreign ships in Ukrainian ports – many with grain cargoes onboard


*As of Jun 14, 2022


Sources: Reuters, Ukrainian Railways  
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