Hopes grow for Ukraine grain exports

The deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to unblock three of Ukraine’s ports has created a safe shipping channel after months of Russian blockade


POLAND
BELARUS
Kyiv
UKRAINE
MOLDOVA
Odesa
Pivdennyi
Chornomorsk
Three ports have combined capacity to ship three million tonnes of grain per month

BLACK SEA
Bosporus Strait
Ankara
TURKEY
GREECE
Aegean Sea

Istanbul: Joint Coordination Centre oversees deal – made up of Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian and UN officials

RUSSIA
Donbas region
Sea of Azov
Crimea Annexed by Russia in 2014
GEORGIA
200km 125 miles


Ukraine harvest (million tonnes)

2021/22 crop	
20.0

Summer 2022 wheat: 19.5*

Autumn 2022 feed grains
38.2*


Sea corridor: Ships protected by 10 nautical mile buffer zone

Russian-held territory 


*Forecast 


Sources: International Food Policy Research Institute, Reuters 
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