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To: yard_man who wrote (174976)	5/31/2022 9:42:43 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 220467

Critical transportation infrastructure is proving to be the major hurdle to getting Ukrainian agricultural goods to world markets. Farmers are navigating mines, traversing bombed bridges and risking dangerous maneuvers at overworked ports to circumvent a Russian blockade and ship their grains. But Alistair MacDonald, Will Horner and Patrick Thomas report that Ukraine’s strained infrastructure has little hope of being able to handle the 30 million metric tons of corn, wheat and sunflower oil that is expected after harvesting starts in June. Russia’s Black Sea blockade has pushed crops across roads and rail to Ukraine’s western borders or down the Danube to be loaded onto ships in Romania. That has sparked a race to increase the capacity of those routes and high-stakes diplomacy as Ukraine’s Western allies seek alternatives. For now, a one-day truck journey on one route takes three days and river transports are backed up for days. Then : A gauntlet of environmental groups, local opposition and bureaucracy is standing in the way of European plans to stop buying Russian natural gas by installing wind turbines and solar panels on a massive scale. (WSJ) Russian coal exports to Europe reached a five-year high ahead of a European Union ban on the shipments in August. (TradeWinds)