Grain exports have doubled in the last five years

Grain exports have doubled in the last five years, hitting 44 million tons this year, Maxim Striletsky, spokesman for the Maritime Administration, tells Ukrinform. This year, new grain terminals have been completed at Berdyansk, Olbia and Yuzhne. With $1 billion in deals signed with private companies for port expansion, the ratio of public money to private money is 1:5, says Maksym Shirokov head of the Yuzhne office of Maritime Administration.