Germany plans to transport Ukrainian cereals with trains

The plants will be brought to trains at German ports, including ports in Rostock, Hamburg and Brake, the railway company said.

Details on how much grain exports will be capacity have not been made public, but are planned to transport some trains within the week. These trains will mainly take Ukrainian grain to Romania.

Deutsche Bahn has operated trains from Germany that have been filled with aid to Ukraine and plans the same trains now to be filled with cereals on their way back.

Ukraine's grain exports were 2.5 million tonnes in June, compared to 6 million tonnes of exports a month the state had before Russia began its conquest on February 24th.

United Nations agencies have warned that the absence of Ukrainian cereals, mainly exported to the Middle East and Africa, are threatening to have hunger and mass migration “on an unprecedented scale of”.

Most of Ukraine's exports are currently being transported through trucks and ships through rivers to neighboring countries, including Romania and Poland. They are then shipped to sea ports.

Ukraine urgently needs to export cereals before starting new summer harvests, and farmers are facing a lack of space to store their products.

Due to the export blockade, talks are under way aimed at creating a safe corridor on the Black Sea through which Ukraine's shipments could be passed.