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"In the second decade of September, Russia shipped only 347 thousand tons of wheat against 1.3 million tons for the same period in 2025. 72.5 thousand tons passed through Novorossiysk – against 696 thousand tons a year earlier. Moscow is trying to transfer some of the cargo to the Baltic, northern ports and the Far East.
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"The southern ports of the Russian Federation have more than 60 million tons of capacity per year. Last year, almost 90% of the sea exports of Russian grain passed through them. Russia is also trying to bring grain through Murmansk.
"The volume of the New Land Grain Corridor increased from 2.3 million tons in 2024 to 5.8 million tons in 2025. By 2026, about 9 million tons are expected. But there are also strict restrictions: railway infrastructure, terminal capacities, tariffs, phytosanitary requirements, in particular, the lack of a phytosanitary protocol for Russian winter wheat and Chinese quotas, "the report says. notification.