Russia sharply reduced sugar exports in 2020/2021 agricultural year
Sugar
Russia
Published Aug 12, 2021
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As the leading IKAR expert Evgeny Ivanov told Interfax, in the past agricultural year the Russian Federation exported, according to preliminary data, about 440 thousand tons of sugar (386 thousand tons by rail), which is 3.4 times less than a year earlier (1 , 5 million tons). The largest buyers of Russian sugar were Kazakhstan (from August to July, 248 thousand tons were sent by rail), Uzbekistan (almost 66 thousand tons), Kyrgyzstan (27 thousand tons), Azerbaijan (18 thousand tons). “A feature of the past export season was that small sea shipments of sugar continued in containers,” the expert said. “In January-April 2021, almost 1,000 tons were shipped to Benin, Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Israel. Before that, in August-December 2020, more than 1.3 thousand tons were exported to Benin and Israel. " According to him, the niche of container shipments from Russia of any cargo, including sugar, has not yet been mastered due to many reasons, including because of ...
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