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"Things have stabilised compared to yesterday," Mikhail Sidorov, spokesman for Novorossiisk Commercial Sea Port , adding that disruptions to rail traffic had cut cargo flows but the port was loading goods on hand.
It was unclear whether grain was loading on schedule but a resumption of crude oil loadings was imminent.
Igor Dyomin, a spokesman for the Transneft pipeline monopoly, said crude oil would be loaded in the coming hours onto a 100,000-tonne tanker which was docked in Novorossiisk.
A second tanker was due to dock later in the day and five more were on roads outside Novorossiisk, he said by telephone.