Poland continues to work on project of pipeline to export vegetable oils from Ukraine - Ukrainian ministry

MOSCOW. Dec 23 (Interfax) - Active work is continuing on a project to build a pipeline to export vegetable oils from Ukraine to the Gdansk port in Poland, and a number of Ukrainian-Polish meetings are due to take place in the near future to discuss technical details of the project and to draw up an action plan for the following year.

These remarks were made by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Henryk Kowalczyk during an online meeting with Ukraine's Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nikolai Solsky, Ukrainian media said, citing the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

Kowalczyk and Solsky also discussed the possibility of reviewing the mechanisms that control vehicles carrying Ukrainian grain to third countries via Poland.

The Ukrainian minister thanked Poland for its support of the Grain from Ukraine initiative. The Polish side, in turn, announced its readiness to help deliver grain to Nigeria as part of this humanitarian initiative. The sides also agreed to sort out all details of the logistics of such deliveries shortly.

As reported, Poland's Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry and Infrastructure Ministry and Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food and Infrastructure Ministry signed a memorandum on September 7, 2022 to jointly build a pipeline to deliver vegetable oils from Ukraine to the Gdansk port and two transshipment terminals. The planned pipeline from Yagodyn in Ukraine's Volyn region to the Gdansk port will be some 600 kilometers long and is expected to have a throughput capacity of 2 million tonnes a year.

Furthermore, Poland will provide 20 million euros to support the Grain from Ukraine program, as part of which food products from Ukraine will be delivered to poor countries in Asia and Africa.

More than 30 countries and international organizations, which jointly raised more than $180 million, had joined the Grain from Ukraine initiative by the end of November.