Ukraine's road food exports fall amid Polish drivers' strike - brokers

Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday Kyiv and Warsaw again failed to reach an agreement to stop the protest. "The passage of vehicles through customs checkpoints on the border with Poland decreased to 4,000 tons of cargo per day, compared to the peak of 7,500 tons per day a month earlier," Spike Brokers said.

Ukraine's shipments of food by road decreased 2.7% in the first 13 days of November due to difficulties on the Polish border caused by a drivers' strike, brokers said on Wednesday. Spike Brokers, which regularly tracks and publishes export statistics in Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app that 220,000 metric tons of agricultural goods were exported by truck from Nov. 1-13, versus 226,000 tons in same period in October.

Polish truckers last week blocked roads to three border crossings with Ukraine to protest against what they see as government inaction over a loss of business to foreign competitors since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday Kyiv and Warsaw again failed to reach an agreement to stop the protest.

"The passage of vehicles through customs checkpoints on the border with Poland decreased to 4,000 tons of cargo per day, compared to the peak of 7,500 tons per day a month earlier," Spike Brokers said. It noted that traffic at border crossings with Romania, Hungary and Moldova was gradually increasing.

Ukraine's government is expected to harvest 79 million tons of grain and oilseed in 2023, with the 2023/24 exportable surplus totalling about 50 million tons.

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