of July 30th Oleksiy Vadatursky went to bed a happy man. The founder of Nibulon, a grain company, had just arrived at his home in Mykolaiv after inspecting work on a new export terminal at Izmail, 360km away on the Danube river. He had acquired a “pair of wings,” his driver later quipped, lifted by his company’s quick progress turning an undeveloped plot into a wartime escape route for exports.
Yuriy Vaskov, Ukraine’s 43-year-old deputy infrastructure minister, says that his team recognised the urgency of developing the Danube ports within three days of Russia’s invasion in February last year. A veteran of the maritime business, Mr Vaskov knew about the river’s potential after carrying out a reorganisation exercise in 2012 as head of Ukraine’s seaports authority.
Capacity was not the only factor affecting the viability of the Danube export route. The land-transport infrastructure connecting the region to the rest of Ukraine was, and remains, a bottleneck. The single-carriageway road from Odessa barely copes with a palpitating pulse of lorries that races down it, and there are regular accidents. The railway line that runs parallel to the road has its own vulnerability, in the form of a bridge crossing the Dniester estuary at Zatoka.
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