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Strong Thunder Bay grain movement through May

The Port of Thunder Bay continues to see strong grain movement during the 2024 shipping season, with 923,700 tonnes moved in May, according to a report. That marked the second highest monthly grain total of the past two years and compares with 899,100 tonnes in May 2023.





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US reopens key rail crossings between Texas and Mexico

American, Mexican agriculture groups express relief

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said operations resumed at 2 p.m. ET at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas. The closures had prompted alarm from railroads, the agriculture industry and some lawmakers over the economic impact to halted export trade.

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Thunder Bay grain shipments up on year

Less potash moved so far this year

MarketsFarm — Grain shipments through the Port of Thunder Bay are running well ahead of the previous year’s pace, according to updated data from the Lake Superior facility. Grain shipments through the end of June of about 2.5 million tonnes were up by 760,000 from the same point the previous year. Monthly shipments in June […] Read more


Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)

Russia rejects bank compromise as Black Sea grain deal expiry looms

Collapse of deal could aggravate global food crisis

Reuters — Russia on Tuesday restated a demand for its state agricultural bank to be reconnected to the global SWIFT payments system to avert the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal, and said it would not accept a reported compromise proposal. With 13 days remaining until the expiry of the deal, which has allowed […] Read more

Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)

Ukraine ‘99.9 per cent’ certain Russia will quit Black Sea deal next month

Russia wants demands met on ammonia shipments

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia is 99.9 per cent certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Moscow and […] Read more


Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)

Black Sea grain deal slow to get moving after extension

Ukraine says Russia has effectively frozen out one port

United Nations | Reuters — A deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from Ukrainian Black Sea ports has not yet resumed full operations, the United Nations said on Friday, having come to a halt before Russia’s decision last week to extend it. The pact called the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered […] Read more