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  • Publication | 2022

IGC work to assess grains/oilseeds storage availability in Ukraine – July 2022

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Representatives from the International Grain Council (IGC) further detailed the impacts of the war by citing a decline in storage capacity from 57 million tonnes to 24 million tonnes as of early May 2022. The IGC also noted that, as the harvest continues through October 2022, it is likely that there will be a 12-million-tonne shortage of storage capacity. Factoring in newly opened trade routes via the Sulina and Bystre canals decreases this to a shortage of 11 million tonnes. To avoid such storage capacity shortages, grain exports must reach, on average, 7 million tonnes per month between August and October 2022.