Number of grain hoppers destined for Greater Odessa ports grows, alongside number of ships in Izmail, Reni ports

MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) - The number of ships anchored at the Izmail port in the Odessa region grew 28% to 124 on Monday, and the arrival of another 23 ships is awaited, Ukrainian media said, citing the Marine Traffic monitoring application.

Meanwhile, 25 ships were anchored at the Reni port in the Odessa region on Monday, compared to 16 last week. Another three ships are expected to arrive.

Sixty-three ships have arrived in the Greater Odessa ports and 36 have departed through the temporary maritime corridor since October 16, head of the Black Sea Strategic Search Institute's monitoring group Andrei Klimenko said.

Meanwhile, the number of grain hoppers destined for the Greater Odessa ports has also been growing, Ukrainian media said with the reference to a statement by deputy head of the Ukrainian Railways department of commerce Valery Tkachev on social network. The number grew 50.7% to 4,032 over the past week. Some 500-700 hoppers were daily unloaded in ports over the week.

The line of grain hoppers headed to the ports has shrunk by 16% to 1,774.

An average daily number of grain hoppers unloaded at the Izmail port is 170. It has grown 4.3% over the past week.

As reported earlier, the lines of grain hoppers headed to the Western border decreased by 27.6% on October 1-25 to 2,340. The lines shrank most at the Reni- Giurgiulesti checkpoint (by 97.8% to four hoppers), the Mogilev-Podolsky-Velchynets checkpoint (by 97.6%, to one hopper), the Basarabeasca-Serpneve checkpoint (by 74.7%, to 117 hoppers), and the Chop-Zahony checkpoint (to zero).