Turkey’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure announced that the total amount of grain transported through the Black Sea grain corridor since its launch reached 32 million tons. Accordingly, the share going to African countries doubled to 12%.


Abdulkadir Uraloğlu

In approximately 11 months between August 1, 2022 and June 2023, 32 million tons of grain was transported through the Black Sea Grain Corridor, which was opened to breathe life into the grain trade disrupted by the Ukrainian occupation. “China, Spain, Turkey and Italy were the countries with the most cargo in the grain corridor,” Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, Turkey’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, said in his written evaluations on the grain corridor. Minister Uraloğlu stressed that Turkey is the third country where the most grain is transported, “In the list of 44 countries, 290 of the 987 ships are Turkish flagged and 224 ships came to different ports of our country. In total, there are 13 grains and grain products, including barley, wheat, corn, soy, wheat bran, processed mixed food, soybeans, sunflower seeds, sunflower meal, sunflower oil and peas.”

Noting that the total amount of grain transported through the corridor is 32 million tons, Uraloğlu said, “The amount arriving at Turkish ports is 3 million 659 thousand tons. The highest amount of cargo was shipped to China with 7 million 662 thousand 808 tons. The top outbound countries were China, Spain, Turkey and Italy.”

Uraloğlu pointed out that 3 million 978 thousand 853 tons of grain was transported to the African continent through the grain corridor. “The share of African countries is currently around 12 percent. In the last 6-month period, this figure was 6 percent. Thus, the amount of grain going to African countries has doubled,” he said.