Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline
The country’s Black Sea trade is still largely blocked by Russia
ON THE NIGHT of July 30th, 2022 Oleksiy Vadatursky went to bed a happy man. The founder of Nibulon, a grain company, had just arrived at his home in Mykolaiv after inspecting work on a new export terminal at Izmail, 360km away on the Danube. He had acquired a “pair of wings”, his driver later quipped, lifted by his company’s quick progress in turning an undeveloped plot into a much-needed wartime escape route for exports.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Grain water”
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