Due to bad weather, more than 11,000 railcars with grain have accumulated in the queue at the ports of Greater Odesa

Unfavorable weather conditions have complicated the unloading of wagons in ports, resulting in the accumulation of 11 thousand wagons with grain in the direction of the ports of Greater Odesa.

This was reported by Grain Trade with reference to the Port Stations Operator branch.

In total, the branch currently has 6.2 thousand railcars with grain, and 1.4 thousand railcars are directly in the ports.

"At the beginning of the week, air raids delayed unloading, but now it depends only on the weather. It was raining, sleeting and freezing, with snowfall at night, so sometimes only 300 railcars were unloaded per day. We are currently cleaning the switches, tracks and contact network, after which we will be able to return to normal operations and increase unloading," said the branch representative.

Until last week, the average daily loading of cars was 1.2 thousand cars and unloading was 1.1 thousand cars.

Valeriy Tkachev, deputy director of Ukrzaliznytsia's transportation technology and commercial operations department, believes the accumulation of 11,000 cars is almost critical, although it is due to a combination of factors: a sharp increase in loading to 1,600 cars per day (almost 100,000 tons of cargo), adverse weather conditions, constant air raids and damage to the marshalling yard in Odesa. To reduce the queue, it is necessary to increase the rate of cargo unloading to 1.5 thousand cars per day.

Earlier, the monitoring group of the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews editorial board published a database "Russian Missile Attacks and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Attacks on the Ports of Greater Odesa in 2025" based on the results of their own monitoring.

Кирило Бойко