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Nibulon shipping traffic increases
KIEV, UKRAINE - Nibulon transported and shipped for export about 1.5 million tonnes of agricultural commodities in the
2014-15 marketing year. In the 2015 navigation season (as of
July 15), Nibulon made 77 cargo trips along the Dnipro and the
Southern Bug in Ukraine, having processed 683,000 tonnes of
grain and oilseeds, thereby more than doubling the results of
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Nibulon plans further extension of transportation volumes.
Management said Ukraine has a great potential to reorient its
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and export shipments up to 3 million tonnes in the 2015-16 marketing year, and up to 5 million tonnes in the next three years.
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crossed the 2-million-tonne mark of grain and oilseeds loaded.
Since the beginning of July, St. Mykolai has had a good start
to a new marketing year, having transshipped more than 60,000
tonnes of agricultural commodities.

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Rouen totaled 7.61 million tonnes for the 2014-15 season, an
increase of 2.4% compared to the 2013-14 season and 14%
compared to 2012-13.
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since the 1998-99 season, and 80% of this tonnage included
malt and feed barley shipments to China.
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Port of Constanta to see major new grain terminal
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that it has received the approval from the local authorities
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Chimpex will have the capability to operate a state-of-the-art
terminal capable of storing 200,000 tonnes in 20 vertical cells.

Port Qasim in Pakistan is the nation's second busiest port and accounts for about 40% of the nation's cargo. It is located east of Karachi. Photo courtesy of Vigan.
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