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Trickling through
| 题名： | Trickling through |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | Ports along the Danube River are backed up as the region tries to get grain out of the Ukraine following the Russian blockade of the country's seaports. The United Nations is trying to broker a deal to reopen ports such as Odessa. To allow this, Russia has said it wants sanctions lifted while also accusing Ukraine of mining its own waters. In Ukraine, trucks line up near the Port of Izmail, hoping to offload their cargo and out the world's fourth-largest wheat exporting country. Those alternative shipping methods are hampered by the lack of infrastructure that cannot cope with the sudden demand. When trains reach the border of Ukraine toward Europe, cargo has to be unloaded as the country's Soviet-era train gauges are bigger than the European ones. Off the Port of Sulina, ships also wait to cross the Danube River toward Ukrainian ports. "We have no respite," one of the pilots told AFP, while ship mechanic Mihai Calin said "a record" 400 boats passed through Sulina in May. Transport ministry official Ion Popa said to Reuters that traffic in May tripled compared with May 2021. At the same time, Vadym Denysenko, an interior ministry adviser for Ukraine, said the rate of grain transhipment had increased fourfold compared with before the conflict. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Ports & harbors |
| 卷： | 67 |
| 期： | 4 |
| 页码： | 26-27 |
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