The development of the Danube River estuary will increase agricultural product exports by a million tons monthly.

To find new avenues that will allow for increases in the export of Ukrainian agricultural products, Ukraine will have to develop the Bystre estuary, the Ukrainian canal to the Black Sea, to increase exports through the Danube by one million tons over the current 2.2-2.3 million tons per month, said the Deputy Minister of Community Development Yuriy Vaskov.

He also emphasized the need to organize round-the-clock operation on the Sulina canal in Romania, which currently works only 17 hours a day, affecting the work pace and significantly slowing it down.

“Now many vessels have accumulated in the Romanian mouth of the Danube Sulina and the Ukrainian mouth of Bystre, and this route needs to be developed. This is income, first, for the Romanian budget,” he emphasized. According to the deputy minister, the key issue in increasing the export potential of the Danube is the organization of raid transshipments in Romanian territorial waters.