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| Agro: Russian exporters move grain shipments to Baltic ports |
| Moscow, 01.09.2026 |
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| Russian grain exporters are shifting their shipments from Black Sea ports to Baltic ports, including ports in the Baltic states, citing Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian ports in the Black Sea and Azov Seas, grain traders and analysts told Reuters.
Russia and Ukraine have been attacking each other's export terminals and merchant ships in the Black Sea, making deliveries from the region increasingly difficult for the two countries, which are key global grain exporters.
Russia exported 46.3 million tonnes of grain through ports in the Azov and Black Seas in the last export season (July 2025-June 2026). This is about 90% of Russia's total grain exports by sea. Russia's Baltic ports exported only about one million tonnes.
However, according to one of the sources, who did not wish to be named, the requirements for grain deliveries by rail to Russian Baltic ports for this season had already reached 5 million tons by August 18. Most of them were for deliveries in August and September. For comparison, for the Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk and Tuapse, it was about 6 million tons.
In addition to Russian Baltic ports, Russian exporters are also looking at ports in the Baltic states, especially Latvia. Analysts and grain traders said this, and they expect exports to grow next month. Despite tense relations between Russia and its Baltic neighbors, Russian grain exports through these countries continue, although the volume of exports has fallen. In the last export season, about one million tons of grain were exported through the ports of these states, while two years ago it was about 2.5 million tons.
According to Andrei Sizov, head of the analytical company SovEcon, the Baltic region is becoming increasingly important in the current situation. “I think that in September, Russian grain exports through both Russian Baltic ports and the ports of the Baltic states will increase significantly,” he said.
Arkady Zlochevsky, head of the Russian Grain Union, also assumes this. He estimates that during the current export season, Russian grain exports through the Baltic states could increase to 5 million to 6 million tons. He does not rule out even 10 million tons if Estonian ports were also available.
Further exports should be ensured by Russian export terminals in the ports of Vysotsk and Ust-Luga. Grain can also be exported through the ports of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. The total export capacity of Russian Baltic ports is about 7 million tons of grain per year. In the case of the ports of the Baltic states together, it is more than 18 million tons.
Despite their expansion, however, Baltic ports cannot match the export opportunities through ports on the Azov and Black Seas, which typically handle twice the volume of grain exported by all other Russian ports combined, plus exports via land transport.
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