Ukraine's sea port grain exports down

Ukrainian grain exports from sea ports in the week ended February 23-March 1 dropped to 816,000 tonnes from 1.16 million tonnes a week earlier, the APK-Inform consultancy said. Corn exports decreased to 717,000 tonnes from 848,000 tonnes, while wheat shipments plunged to 99,000 tonnes from 303,000 tonnes, the consultancy said. Ukraine sent its grain mostly to Egypt, Spain and China.
The country has exported 28.26 million tonnes of wheat, corn and barley so far this season, which runs from July to June, APK-Inform said. That was up from 23.4 million tonnes in the same period in 2017/18.